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xkcd #3102: Reading a Big Number (xkcd.com)
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[desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???

https://explainxkcd.com/3102/

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[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

For me it's 54,000,000,000 then my brain just glosses over the rest of the zeros. You could literally put other random symbols in the later digits number and I won't see them.