How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
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@infobeautiful Today, my lifelong pondering over whether Lincoln's use of "Four score and seven years ago" to start the Gettysburg address was somehow a nod to the French is completely blown away by wonderment regarding whatever the fuck the Danish are doing.
@ColesStreetPothole @infobeautiful This is either a brilliant way to make sure all of your people grasp mathematical concepts, or a diabolical plot to ensure dominance of math PhDs.
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@rhelune @infobeautiful yep, they say 70, 80 and 90 like all the other latin languages.
@mdione @rhelune @infobeautiful
They pronounce the p in septante but not the p in sept.
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@tehstu @infobeautiful in Welsh it would be 9x10+2 I think?
@LiquorVicar @infobeautiful Upon further reading, just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating my schooling, it seems there are officially two methods.
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@ColesStreetPothole @infobeautiful This is either a brilliant way to make sure all of your people grasp mathematical concepts, or a diabolical plot to ensure dominance of math PhDs.
@rejinl @infobeautiful "We will occasionally require you to solve trig equations before regaining control of your car's steering wheel....."
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@pikesley @infobeautiful Remnants of a vigesimal system with roman-style subtractions
@richarddegenne Could we see that in Roman numerals please? I do hope I'm not asking too much.
Had to look up vigesimal too. It means twenty-based.
(Reminds me of this man I knew who claimed that the French counted using not only fingers but toes as well.)
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@richarddegenne Could we see that in Roman numerals please? I do hope I'm not asking too much.
Had to look up vigesimal too. It means twenty-based.
(Reminds me of this man I knew who claimed that the French counted using not only fingers but toes as well.)
@RolfBly @pikesley @infobeautiful Yeah, like 4 in Roman numerals is IV, literally "5-1", as in "one away from five".
Same principle with IX (9), XL (40), XC (90) and so on
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@RolfBly @pikesley @infobeautiful Yeah, like 4 in Roman numerals is IV, literally "5-1", as in "one away from five".
Same principle with IX (9), XL (40), XC (90) and so on
@RolfBly @pikesley @infobeautiful Related Numberphile video
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@davidnjoku @infobeautiful this is amazing LMAO
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@mdione @rhelune @infobeautiful
They pronounce the p in septante but not the p in sept.
@RolfBly @mdione @rhelune @infobeautiful fucking belges
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@rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem @graves501 I want whatever the Danish are smoking.
@alecsargent @rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem @graves501 Ok, so I can explain the Danish. I have a Danish mate and he explained it to me once:
"So let's take 297. That's to hundrede og syvoghalvfems. Two hundred and seven and ninety. But let's take a closer look at the ninety. That the 'halvfems'. This has over a long time been shortened from 'halve af den femte snes', which means half of the fifth snes, which is rather archaic word for 20."
(So the equivalent of "score" in English)
"So, taking half of the fifth snes, with the four preceding being implied as it would be a bit long with that included, and we wouldn't want this to end up getting silly, that gives us the last 10 after the implied 4 times 20."
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@edgeofeurope @infobeautiful I expect that'd be "fourscore and twelve", because "fourscore and a dozen" would sound ridiculous.
Some, however, might prefer "half a gross and twenty" which, in the right circumstances, would be a perfectly acceptable alternative.
So 80+12 or (144/2)+20, depending on your idea of fun.
@wibble
You beat me to it
I was going to say four score and a dozen - 4x20+12 which would be typical of Imperial to mix different measures
or
seven dozen and eight
or (since Imperial LOVES fractions)
seven dozen and two-thirds of a dozen
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@alecsargent @rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem @graves501 Ok, so I can explain the Danish. I have a Danish mate and he explained it to me once:
"So let's take 297. That's to hundrede og syvoghalvfems. Two hundred and seven and ninety. But let's take a closer look at the ninety. That the 'halvfems'. This has over a long time been shortened from 'halve af den femte snes', which means half of the fifth snes, which is rather archaic word for 20."
(So the equivalent of "score" in English)
"So, taking half of the fifth snes, with the four preceding being implied as it would be a bit long with that included, and we wouldn't want this to end up getting silly, that gives us the last 10 after the implied 4 times 20."
@woe2you @alecsargent @rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem
Sounds like a fever dream/simulation the Danish need to wake up from, holy moly
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@infobeautiful
Denmark here: to be fair nobody pronounces the 20 so in reality its more like 2 & (half-5)'s.
We are not completely insane you know
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@wibble
You beat me to itI was going to say four score and a dozen - 4x20+12 which would be typical of Imperial to mix different measures
or
seven dozen and eight
or (since Imperial LOVES fractions)
seven dozen and two-thirds of a dozen
@screwturn @wibble @infobeautiful I was thinking about something along the lines of pre-decimal pound prices.
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@wibble
You beat me to itI was going to say four score and a dozen - 4x20+12 which would be typical of Imperial to mix different measures
or
seven dozen and eight
or (since Imperial LOVES fractions)
seven dozen and two-thirds of a dozen
@screwturn @wibble @edgeofeurope @infobeautiful Four score and a baker's dozen, less one loaf.
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How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
@infobeautiful flashback to learning French in 1993 - or should I say mille neuf cent quatre-vingt treize?
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@screwturn @wibble @infobeautiful I was thinking about something along the lines of pre-decimal pound prices.
Oh in Imperial it would all change depending on WHAT you were measuring!
This was all just for general numberingFor land distance, it would be in furlongs, miles, chains, rods, yards, inches and fractions thereof
For nautical distance it would be in nautical miles except if it was depth, in which case fathoms
Weight would be in an astonishing number of different measures, and also depend on WHAT was being weighed, and volume would be an insane array -
@infobeautiful
I always knew French numbers were mad, I didn't know Danish were even worse!@cockneylaurie @infobeautiful same here, looked it up, "tooghalvfems" is based on base 20 system... but then thet allow "half" as part of a digit, 2 + 4.5*20 instead of 2+9*10.
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Oh in Imperial it would all change depending on WHAT you were measuring!
This was all just for general numberingFor land distance, it would be in furlongs, miles, chains, rods, yards, inches and fractions thereof
For nautical distance it would be in nautical miles except if it was depth, in which case fathoms
Weight would be in an astonishing number of different measures, and also depend on WHAT was being weighed, and volume would be an insane arrayFor pure money, lets not forget that we have in addition to pounds, shillings, sovereigns, farthings, pennies, ha'penny, thrupence, and so on
They ALL had different units - 20 shillings to a pound, 12 pence to a shilling, four farthings to a penny, ha'penny, was of course half a penny, thrupence was three pennies, sixpence was amazingly six
Now of course a florin was two pounds, a halfcrown was two pounds and sixpence, an a guinea was usually 21 shilling -
How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
@infobeautiful Danish is ridiculous at this point.
