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SV_BubbleTime12/09/20241 replyview on HN

Right, you guys say like “naught point three”… sounds just as weird to us as ours does to you.

Still… I can be required to put a zero in, read 0.3, and still think “that’s point three”.


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404mm12/09/2024

It became quite normal for me to write 0.3 and read it as “point three”. I do agree that the English language makes it less awkward to just skip the zero. It leaves very little room for confusion.