• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    On Sunday, Mamdani’s office said it has raised approximately $1 million in just 10 days, coming from over 12,00 individuals with an average gift of $77.

    Just 12 donors? So precise.

    What would be 0,01 donor, anyway?

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      In the us commas are the thousands separator not the decimal. The number is 12,000 or 12 thousand. The one point the article that said “12,00” is a mistake where they left off the trailing zero.

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        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.