| ▲ | 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! | ||