In the us commas are the thousands separator not the decimal. The number is 12,000 or 12 thousand. If at one point the article said “12,00” they left of a trailing zero and have since corrected it.
I remember the first time I learned that this was not universal; I was in my late teens and installing a set of fancy Italian speakers where that precision mattered quite a bit. I feel like maybe that should be at least a mention in math class here in America.
In the us commas are the thousands separator not the decimal. The number is 12,000 or 12 thousand. If at one point the article said “12,00” they left of a trailing zero and have since corrected it.
I remember the first time I learned that this was not universal; I was in my late teens and installing a set of fancy Italian speakers where that precision mattered quite a bit. I feel like maybe that should be at least a mention in math class here in America.
gl with dates
Dates are fine, I figured out quickly that we were obviously wrong about how to structure those.