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Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sleep



On 27.01.2019 05:42, Robert Elz wrote:
> Yes, like English...   I wasn't previously aware that '.' was ever used
> as the grouping char, though I did believe that some locales use a
> space for that purpose.

I don't know whether there is formality that is followed, but in
practice people use no distinction, spaces (or some automatic distance
in font grouping numbers) or dots/commas (the other character that has
been used for radix). In computer science and some programming languages
there are used '_' (especially for hex numbers).

One of the reasons I prefer to reduce it (at least for my own purposes)
to printing text, not parsing files.

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