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In terms of the character set used by most non-European countries there is no difference.

Some European countries use a comma as a decimal indicator and the full stop as a thousands separator. For example,

UK/US 1,234.56 would be written as 1.234,56

It is simply a case of using common punctuation symbols to indicate key positions in a number.

That is one reason that, if the last part of my sentence on this site is a number, I frequently do not end with a full stop.

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