Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-11-24
- Author: Tom Woodward
- Category: Weekly
- Why you might be counting in the wrong language – BBC Future
For example, in French, 92 is quatre-vingt douze or “four twenties and twelve”. And in Danish, the word for 92 is tooghalvfems, where halvfems, meaning 90,is an abbreviation of the Old Norse word halvfemsindstyve, or “four and a half times twenty”.— thinking the USA isn’t likely to change based on the whole decimal system thing . . .
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