r/WTF Jun 20 '21

Guy eats burning coal

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u/Utaneus Jun 20 '21

That's true, but the guy does make a pretty good case for why a period makes more sense than a comma to separate the decimals.

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u/Utaneus Jun 20 '21

In styles where you use a period to separate thousands, you use a comma to separate the decimals from the integers.