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[–] Kleysley@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I think he is referring to the seperators after the decimal point, eg. the comma in "0.000,000,1". I have also never seen this. Although you rarely deal with such small numbers outside of math, where I'd usually write it in scientific notation or as a fraction (like 1/10,000,000).