My reasoning is that the period is a "stronger" punctuation mark than the comma, and it should be used for the more important separation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

  • bunnygirl [she/her]
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    22 hours ago

    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

    • Gaia [She/Her]@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 hours ago

      Because without a visible delineator readability rapidly declines. Using space means the reader has to interpret each page with regards to its kerning