It's a little hard to imagine some accountant at the East India Tea Company in 1770's flipping commas from trios to duos for no particular reason, and harder still to imagine a British punctuation catching on in Asia only, so I'm putting this problem into the Somebody Must Know category, and if that somebody is you, please write in to the comments below. Dear Sams Club Member: Today, we were notified that General Mills Inc. When I asked my friend Ezra Block (who is really good at finding out pretty much anything), he reported back that Indian mathematicians couldn't explain the comma placement, but thought it might be a recent invention from colonial times. After all, the folks who invented numbering systems lived in that part of the world, so what we call normal over here was probably a corruption of their system. For example, if your account's login URL is your school code would be some-school. Those commas in two decimal places are used not just in India, but in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar, so I'm guessing that this form is really old - maybe an ancestor of our own. Your school code is the first part of your TypingClub School Edition's portal URL. A special thank-you also goes to the members of the Lake Erie North Shore.
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