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Most countries/languages use a comma as the decimal separator - it's the English-speaking world that's unusual for using a dot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...



The map you linked suggests that dots are standard in both China and India as well, which probably means that the majority of humans and economic energy use dots not commas.




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