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CMV: The point as a decimal should be universally adopted as a standard

Many European countries and others use the comma as a decimal (e.g. 100.000,00) while most English speaking countries use a period. (e.g. 100,000.00). I believe the latter, the point as a decimal, should be adopted universally as the standard to avoid confusion and ambiguity. This is not to say one standard is inherently superior to another, but the point as a decimal has seen such widespread uses in so many domains, that the comma doesn't make sense to use anymore in the modern world. 


**Use in the sciences**


For one, most scientists and mathematicians in comma-using countries use the point, due to ubiquity in scientific literature and the comma being used as a separator. For example, a set of elements is declared by the notation {w,x,y,z}. Hence, the notation {12,73.3,43} would be ambiguous. Most scientific literature you will find will use the decimal point, even if it came from the countries that traditionally use decimal comma. This causes a divide between casual uses and scientific ones, similar to Fahrenheit vs Celsius in the US


**Use in English**


In English, the decimal point is used as the separator for fractional numbers in linguistics. Numbers after the decimal are prefixed with "point". The number 7.22 is spoken as "seven point two two". As such, when using English to discuss numbers, the point decimal should be used. 


**The technological era**


Most of the internet is based on languages from countries where the decimal point is used (English, Chinese, etc) and as such, the vast majority of content uses the decimal point system. This has many implications in technology and the use of technology, where many technologies require the use of the decimal point system, which has become a de-facto standard in these domains, such as web forms, programming languages, databases, calculators, just to name a few. One example of a possiblity of confusion is numbers such as "142.215.211.101". What is this number? Is it an IP address? 

Due to the widespread usage of the point decimal system in multiple domains, the decimal point system is deeply ingrained in many domains and fields in the world, and as such, has become a de-facto standard. We should aim to standardize it and as such, abolish the use of the decimal comma system.
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* in sciences, you can use semicolon as a delimiter 
* yes, in English they use decimal point and they call it "xxx point xxx", in other language they can use decimal commas and say "yyy comma yyy" (in translation). Why should be other languages be forced to call numbers in English? It's like saying that every language should end a sentence with a dot. 
* every interface should have some kind of information what format it accepts. There are many ways to represent phone numbers, postal codes, logical operators and everything else, and if it's clearly stated how to input your data, there will be no ambiguity.