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Europeans, you say?
Yeah, I know, it's still less than 1/3 of the total, but it's used in several continents.
I just hurts my soul that it's inconsistent.
By population decimal point wins?
I don't really care which, but my heart craves standardisation*
(*where it makes sense. I don't think language based differences in how many digits between separators needs to be world-wide. Eg. In East Asia you separate in groups of 4 digits, not 3 because of language)
I'd be willing to give up my habit, but imagine the DECADES of constant confusion, mistakes and accidents because 8 years into the change you need to figure out whether the right number is 4.827 or 4,827 in the document you're looking at... And now you need to investigate the creation date.
Eh, it's already fairly obvious using both systems side by side across the internet.
Though I suppose in actual work you're correct. I use 3 decimal places for metres on drawings a lot, because I like it to be easy to read the mm.
It being 1,000 m or 1.000 m is of course a huge difference haha
A boy can dream 🥹
Fine... europeans and south americans... /j