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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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 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