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No, it's a matter of geography (or should I say locale). Raised in South Africa, we English speakers were taught to write "ten thousand and forty one-hundredths" as

    10.000,40
which is exactly the opposite of the US based

    10,000.40
So it's locale rather than language that determines this.


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