laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 29 days ago70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-tenlemmy.worldimagemessage-square146linkfedilinkarrow-up1324arrow-down113
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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·28 days agoJust ask the Danish how to “calculate” their word for 90, and you will consider the French approach simplicistic.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·27 days agoIn a way, Danish is more clear than French, because all numbers between 50 and 90 are based on the vigesimal (base-20) system.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·27 days agoOh yea, “half to five” aka 4.5 times 20. Very intuitive…
minus-squaredaddycool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·28 days ago90 = Half fives. 50 = Half sixty. 70 = Half (I don’t even know how to translate this)
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·27 days ago70 = halfway to the fourth twenty In other words, three twenties are 60, four twenties are 80, halfway between them is 70. Same for the other ones: 50 is halfway to the third twenty, 90 is half more than the fourth twenty.
Just ask the Danish how to “calculate” their word for 90, and you will consider the French approach simplicistic.
In a way, Danish is more clear than French, because all numbers between 50 and 90 are based on the vigesimal (base-20) system.
Oh yea, “half to five” aka 4.5 times 20. Very intuitive…
90 = Half fives.
50 = Half sixty.
70 = Half (I don’t even know how to translate this)
70 = halfway to the fourth twenty
In other words, three twenties are 60, four twenties are 80, halfway between them is 70.
Same for the other ones: 50 is halfway to the third twenty, 90 is half more than the fourth twenty.