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On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:49:30 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

>On 11/23/2024 12:05 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>>> The data "sheet" for the new processor I'm using is ~16,000 pages.
>>> (note carefully the position of the comma separator)
>> 
>> In my country people would ask why are you putting decimal
>> comma in a number that is supposed to be an integer?
>
>I18N/L10N.  In the US, there are many conventions for the presentation
>of numeric values.
>
>Magnitudes greater thatn 10^3 *can* be separated into triads of
>digits (right justified) using the comma as a separator.
>1,000; 1,000,000; 1,000,000,000; etc.  For four digit values,
>the separator is often omitted.
>
>Years, in dates, are never represented with a comma:  2024, 1999, etc.
>
>Numeric street addresses are also not so punctuated.  2981, 10322, etc.
>(additionally, street addresses are referenced as "hundreds" -- the
>last of those would be spoken as "hundred and three hundred")

Some towns start street addresses at 10000. Our cabin is at 12076 Some
Lane.

People don't seem to use commas for that.