Hundreds of years ago, writers of alphabetic language used "Scriptio continua" -- there were no spaces between words
Eventually we realized that chunking the words with whitespace would dramatically aid comprehension
Here's an essay wondering why we so often fail to do this today ...
... with numbers, many of which -- in the commercial world -- are still delivered in Scriptio continua: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/07/digital-age-why-our-numbers-need-updating.html
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