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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why so many zeros after the decimal point? Do you deal in 1/10 cents much?

[–] Valmond 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

European. Or maybe just a programmer...

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As a European programmer, the comma-period-decimal struggle is real.

Most higher level programming languages don't accept commas, so decimals are started by a period, and thousands can sometimes (varies by language) be separated by underscores.

For example, these are all valid number notation:

1.00
0.000001
1_000.00
1_000_000
1_0_0_0_0_0_0.0_0

If you use the final one frequently, though, your employment may experience a period too.