• 4am
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    Yes, in a lot of places a period is used for order-of-magnitude separation and comma is used for decimal places.

    In this title the use seems inconsistent.

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      Either the rock weighs exactly 500kg to an impressive precision and has been there for eleven thousand years or it weighs five hundred thousand kg and has been there for exactly 11 years.

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      It’s got something for everyone.

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      Right, i think he’s asking if there’s some culture where the inconsistency is designed based on unit. So, for example, period for years, comma for weight.

      I think it’s simply an error. Maybe AI generated?