• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    A small, but important detail. :D I always try to use the correct decimal separator for the unit.

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      8 hours ago

      Some years back, I had a friend who had lived in Germany for some time who came to the US and did a cash transfer without thinking at an ATM and couldn’t figure out at first why her account got frozen. She’d used a comma instead of a period when entering the amount of money to be moved.