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I've always used a point on top of the numbers to avoid confusion, i.e. 1`000`000,00
The map is wrong in that regard anyway, because quite a lot of languages/countries actually use a space or half-space as a thousand separator.
The map doesn't mention a thousand separator...
But it shows areas and how numbers are suposedly formatted in those areas and those numbers have thousand separators.
But it specifically only talks about separating the integer from the decimal. How can it be wrong about something it doesn't talk about at all?
Not to mention that the Arabic world writes numbers with their own script:
۱٬۲۳٤٬٥٦۷٫۸۹
(Yes, that's the official thousands separator U+060C and the official decimal separator U+060B and they do look suspisciously similar.)
Especially pointing at Russia... They couldn't even look at the Examples section of the Wikipedia article they obviously used.
i just use an apostrophe, why make things complicated? 1'000'000.00 should be unambigous to almost everyone, provided they can rub some braincells together.
You'd think so, but I've seen people do 1.350'78. in their mind, it's to avoid confusion too.
You'd think so, but I've seen people do 1.350'78. in their mind, it's to avoid confusion too.