Firefox 70 adds numeric separators to its JS implementation, so you can write 1_000_000. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Lexical_grammar#Numeric_separators
Not only is this feature becoming more common, it's interesting to see different programming language all settle on the _ as the separator.
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