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Character used to separate the decimal from the integer (lemmy.ml)

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[–] DaddleDew 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

French Canadian. I once accidentally transferred WAY too much money in a banking transaction because of this.

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

Oh dear. Presumably 1000x too much?

[–] DaddleDew 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

100 times. I do everything in English on my computer and for some reason that day my banking session was opened in French. So it ignored the decimal point for cents in the number I entered. I asked to transfer 160.50 bucks (or whatever the exact number was), and it transferred 16 050 instead. Luckily I could fix it with a phone call.