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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

7,470 is just under 7½ in a lot of languages, the , is used the same way as a . in English number writing so 7,470 = 7.470 in English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And this was written in English, so using English conventions.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

It was a joke, ever heard of those?