My reasoning is that the period is a “stronger” punctuation mark than the comma, and it should be used for the more important separation.
My reasoning is that the period is a “stronger” punctuation mark than the comma, and it should be used for the more important separation.
In a sentence, the comma denotes a continuation of that sentence, whereas the period means full stop. Why should it be different for numbers?
A comma means you are continuing on the whole part of the number, whereas the period means the whole part is over, now on to the fractional aspect.
I mean, wouldn’t that lead you to spaces and commas being the actual choice
after all, both space and commas continue sentences in different ways, but a full stop ends a sentence, so why would you use it in this context to actually continue the same number
Because without a visible delineator readability rapidly declines. Using space means the reader has to interpret each page with regards to its kerning
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