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Test a custom input to verify an edge case (e.g. empty lists, negative numbers, duplicates).
This bug belongs to the type errors pattern
Totals that concatenate, sorts that put 10 before 9, comparisons that refuse to run.
What went wrong: parseFloat stops quietly at the comma, so it only reads "1".
The fix: return parseFloat(text.replaceAll(",", ""));
Remember: clean numbers from files before parsing them.
The pattern behind it: type errors.
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