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cperciva 7 hours ago

"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".

rkomorn 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But the history of why we stuck to four-twenties sort of makes it worse.

We were allegedly headed to sanity but l'Academie was like "actually let's stick to soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix".

card_zero 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good grief, it gets worse. It's half third [ordinal] times twenty, ½ #3 × 20.

Waterluvian 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is so cursed.

I love it!