[desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???

https://explainxkcd.com/3102/

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    the problem with spaces is that it leaves it ambigous whether it’s one or multiple separate numbers, whereas a non-space separator (i think apostrophe is just obviously the best) makes it clear: 123’000’398