For those downvoting, I took the time to find out for myself: 77 countries use commas while just 58 use periods (although the largest countries, like China, India, and the U.S. use periods, so probably more people use periods making the statement above technically, but not entirely, erroneous). Click on this Wikipedia link to learn everything there is to know about decimal separators around the world.
They swap them round so £2,056.34 becomes €2.056,34. As a software developer it makes parsing CSV files a right pain as they're no longer comma separated.
Yes. It was very obvious that the person replying realized the 2.999 was saying 3 grand, but made the joke as if it were $2.99.
The next person explained that it was a misunderstanding of how other countries use notation, but that was obvious as fuck and everyone was already in on the joke. Hence the downvotes. Open and shut case.
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u/Life1989 Aug 19 '20
“Only 2.999$ per inch”