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pargofan t1_iybxczw wrote

Reply to comment by ryschwith in TIL Woodpeckers use their tongue to make an 'internal bike helmet' to protect from brain damage sustained by MaroonPrince

It's 1,000-2,000g.

I don't care how small the brain is. Something has to be protecting it from shaking.

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Narase33 t1_iycln24 wrote

always be careful with commas, your numbers can be read as 1g or 1000g

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pargofan t1_iyclvf1 wrote

It's an American thing. We use commas instead of periods.

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Hopeful-Profession74 t1_iyelmpc wrote

I am not American, but it is simply better to use a period as a decimal point and commas as place separators. A period ends a sentence, it should end a whole number. A comma separates sections of a sentence, it should separate place values in a number.

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