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# PART 3: REPORTING CONCEPTS


# Amount formatting, ambiguous amounts
# Amount formatting, parseability

If you're wondering why your `print` report sometimes shows trailing
decimal marks, even when there are no decimal digits; it does this to
disambiguate [ambiguous amounts](decimal-marks-digit-group-marks)
(amounts which have one digit group mark and no decimal digits),
allowing them to be re-parsed reliably.

Background: hledger output falls into three rough categories, which
More generally: hledger output falls into three rough categories, which
format amounts a little bit differently to suit different consumers:

**1. "hledger-readable output" - should be readable by hledger and by humans**
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