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Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives (proton.me)
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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

yes, german has a very weird way of writing numbers, where . is replaced by , and , is replaced by .

So, in US numbers, that would be EUR 274,091,361.75

It has confused many people already. It should be made more consistent internationally. I propose all use the US format of 274,091,361.75 because that's already used in programming and so it's widespread.