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Because some places, like Europe, use the comma symbol as the decimal point, so pi would be 3,14159...


That doesn't make sense. Everybody knows that the number of views a post has is an integer, it doesn't really cause that much of a confusion for anyone. Most europeans are used to it.

What they should do is display the right separating symbol depending on the user's location.




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