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Someone on March 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grid...

Oops. Misread that American comma thousands separator as a decimal one, thinking it was close to 50%. That makes a huge difference.

xxpor on March 8, 2021 [–]

* English language comma thousands separator

You'll never find . used as a thousands separator in the UK, Australia or English-speaking Canada either.

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