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How many of the comma countries use the word for “point” when reading the decimal?
Why would we say that?
There's a comma, we say comma. Otherwise would be confusing.
There’s a period in English, but we don’t say period. We say point.
I was wondering about French because they also have the word “point”, but looking it up they say “and” or sometimes “comma”.
In portuguese point and period are the same word "ponto"