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In French, we don' t say "ninety nine", we
say "queue vingt dix new which roughly
translates to "I' never heard of a
functional numeric system before" and I
think that' s beautiful
Source;
more like queue vingt DEEA NUTS
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User avatar #1 - whutinthehell (12/19/2015) [-]
Literally 4 20 19
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#46 to #1 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
Is not like
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User avatar #58 to #1 - themurrey (12/20/2015) [-]
technically it's 4 20 10
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User avatar #62 to #58 - OperativeOpposite (12/20/2015) [-]
dix nuef, not just dix.
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User avatar #70 to #62 - alcantara (12/20/2015) [-]
Dix neuf is itself "ten nine", so overall it is "four twenty ten nine" - makes sense in an archaic style, like Roman numerals, where you add or multiply the individual elements of the numbers ie four twenties plus ten and nine or XCIX (one ten from one hundred plus nine).

Easier to just have numbers, but that **** comes from when letters were used to represent numbers, and who wants to write XXXXXXXXXIIIIIIIII for 99?
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#75 to #70 - xexion (12/20/2015) [-]
XCIX?
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User avatar #78 to #75 - alcantara (12/20/2015) [-]
Roman numeral for 99;

I is 1
X is 10
IX is 1 from 10 therefor 9.

C is 100
XC is 10 from 100 therefor 90.

Put it all together, XCIX, and you get 99.
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User avatar #105 to #78 - miastogwiazd (12/20/2015) [-]
IC? 100-1?
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User avatar #106 to #105 - birckin (12/20/2015) [-]
Roman numerals rules don't allow to do that. You shouldn't substract a number from another that is more than 10 times greater (100 > 1*10).
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#79 to #78 - xexion (12/20/2015) [-]
didn't fully read post, just saw the XXXXXXXXXIIIIIIIII
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User avatar #104 to #70 - thegamepixel (12/20/2015) [-]
That doesn't explain why 20s-70s are normal and 80s get weird.
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User avatar #108 to #104 - alcantara (12/20/2015) [-]
French is a bastardisation of Latin; commoners probably brought around new words for lower numbers that they could actually count to or some **** .
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#83 to #62 - critizer (12/20/2015) [-]
Hehe dicks
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User avatar #77 to #1 - rainbowrush ONLINE (12/20/2015) [-]
Which is a trash system
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User avatar #84 to #1 - epicalania ONLINE (12/20/2015) [-]
*Literally 4 20 10 9
which is read as 4 '20's + 10 + 9
so it works, it's just originally base 60
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User avatar #85 to #1 - TheSchwartz (12/20/2015) [-]
Or more specifically: 4 20 10 9
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#68 to #1 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
more like 4x20+(10+9)
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#87 to #68 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
You don't really need the brackets, it'll be absolutelythe same if you removed the brackets, as multiplying always has priority over subtraction and addition and it doesn't matter in which order you add or subtract.
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#6 to #1 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
Am I the only one here that has yet to see these numbers add up to 99?
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#7 to #6 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
it literatly means four twentys. 4X20
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#26 to #7 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
Blaze it faggot
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#8 to #7 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
Ah - thanks.
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#16 to #7 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
4*20*19
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User avatar #21 to #16 - illburnyou (12/19/2015) [-]
(4*20)+19
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User avatar #65 to #16 - twiceasfun (12/20/2015) [-]
Oh boy math sure is hard
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#67 to #1 - gingershavetrolls (12/20/2015) [-]
GIF
**gingershavetrolls used "*roll picture*"**
**gingershavetrolls rolled image** blaze it 19 times faget
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#2 to #1 - randomuploads [OP](12/19/2015) [-]
Oh right this is an US site. Should've added that.
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#54 to #1 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
technically its 4 20 10 9
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#5 to #1 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
4 20 10 9
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#3 to #1 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
4 20 10 9
since 19 is dix-neuf
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#4 to #1 - attifyon (12/19/2015) [-]
Quatre vingt blaze it baguette
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#23 to #4 - Hiago (12/19/2015) [-]
This is why I love you people
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#44 to #4 - sirsirsonson (12/20/2015) [-]
Sweet honey baked Moses
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#64 to #4 - darknak (12/20/2015) [-]
damn haven't laughed like that for a while.
being french, i'll definitely start using this now
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User avatar #12 - redrex ONLINE (12/19/2015) [-]
bruh, **** the french system for counting, learning french for 4 years now and that **** still trips me the **** up sometimes
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User avatar #24 to #12 - alucardexplain (12/19/2015) [-]
I used to be fluent in French, about 6 or 7 years ago, and the damn counting system was the only thing I actually had to put any effort into. It was a huge pain in my goddamn ass.

Having not spoken it in 6 years, I've mostly lost French, but I think I might pick it up again.
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User avatar #63 to #12 - lutra (12/20/2015) [-]
I've been speaking French for like 15 years and it still takes me a few seconds to figure it out sometimes.
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User avatar #73 to #12 - sonnyboii (12/20/2015) [-]
***** i feel you
I had 3 years in (senior???) high school and man i could barely make a sentence
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User avatar #53 to #12 - zazachzach (12/20/2015) [-]
That's why I love being Swiss. We use Septante for seventy instead of soixante-dix, Huitante for eighty instead of quatre-vingts, and Nonante instead of quatre vingts dix-neuf.
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#71 to #53 - ipwnallnubz (12/20/2015) [-]
And I took German and can't understand anything you people say, even when you speak Hochdeutsch.
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User avatar #47 - Sterski (12/20/2015) [-]
I got four twenty ten nine problems
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User avatar #88 to #47 - theugandanhero (12/20/2015) [-]
And the French language is one of them
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User avatar #90 to #88 - Xiiko (12/20/2015) [-]
if not all of them
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User avatar #43 to #13 - kyuukaku (12/20/2015) [-]
"quatre cingt dix neuf" is essential 4 20's and 10 9's, or 4 20's & 19.
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#25 to #13 - bismarcksback (12/19/2015) [-]
You can say that in every Scandinavian language too, snowflake.
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#28 to #25 - klutzyspy (12/19/2015) [-]
Not danish..
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User avatar #30 to #28 - bismarcksback (12/20/2015) [-]
Yes you can, you can say treogtyve instead of 23
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#31 to #30 - klutzyspy (12/20/2015) [-]
yes up to 49, and the **** gets crazy weird in danish
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User avatar #32 to #31 - bismarcksback (12/20/2015) [-]
Then why the **** did you downthumb me and say you couldn't?
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#33 to #32 - klutzyspy (12/20/2015) [-]
because the example was 83, which you claimed is the same in danish, norwegian and swedish.

83 is a larger number than 49
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User avatar #34 to #33 - bismarcksback (12/20/2015) [-]
"Danske talord deler den særhed med tysk, hollandsk og norsk rigsmål at tierne og enerne nævnes i omvendt orden, altså enogtyve frem for *tyve-en."

You can use it beyond 49, but it is not commonly used.
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#35 to #34 - klutzyspy (12/20/2015) [-]
Igen, ja. Men ikke højere end 49, 0g tre-og-fire-snes er højere end ni-og-fyrre.

that was all i said..
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User avatar #36 to #35 - bismarcksback (12/20/2015) [-]
It is grammatical correct, although unusual, to use it beyond 49.
You don't HAVE to use the 20 based system, believe me, I know.
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#37 to #36 - klutzyspy (12/20/2015) [-]
Try that on any dane without a explanation and they'll just look stumped at you
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User avatar #38 to #37 - bismarcksback (12/20/2015) [-]
Still doesn't make me any more wrong.
In Norwegian we usually don't use that at all, but it is still correct.
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#39 to #38 - klutzyspy (12/20/2015) [-]
what are you on about now?
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#40 to #39 - bismarcksback (12/20/2015) [-]
Let's just stop this conversation before it get any more retarded.
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#20 to #13 - anon (12/19/2015) [-]
83 drei und achzig in german which is literally three and eighty

not feeling so special anymore do you?
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#27 to #13 - klutzyspy (12/19/2015) [-]
Thats the normal way
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User avatar #14 to #13 - europe (12/19/2015) [-]
Wow that is terrible, definitely much worse than French
/sarcasm
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User avatar #15 to #14 - amonlavtar (12/19/2015) [-]
saying numbers backwards might seem easy, but trust me, it gets confusing
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User avatar #18 to #15 - faelysse (12/19/2015) [-]
And then you come to Czech language.. Were everything is permitted and we say both "Osmdesát tři" (Eighty Three) and "Třiaosmdesát" (Three and Eighty). Both are okay and both are used in different places (such as the first format is used when counting money (such as on wellfare) and the second is usually used with years ("V roce pětačtyřicet" - In Year (19)45)

Czech language is weird, but also beautiful. In czech languages, you can say stuff neutrally (jablko) or emotionally (jablíčko) and it!s strill grmatically correct.

Also, try saying " ř "
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User avatar #19 to #18 - faelysse (12/19/2015) [-]
PS: Jablko - Apple, Jablíčko - Apple with emotions attached.
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User avatar #17 to #15 - paddypancake (12/19/2015) [-]
Well from german to english isn't hard for me at least. In german you also say 3 and 80. Though maybe its only hard in one direction. but saying 4 20 for everything between 80 and 100 is way worse.
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User avatar #22 - painispleasure (12/19/2015) [-]
i would LOVE to hear a french version of ninety nine problems
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#55 to #22 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
j'ai quatre vignt dix neuf problemes, mais une chienne n'est pas une
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#56 to #55 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
vingt*
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#72 - brcstar (12/20/2015) [-]
This comments section makes me like the English language a lot more.
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User avatar #97 to #72 - dantemp (12/20/2015) [-]
The English language is one of easiest to learn. If it wasn't for the idiotic spelling it would've been perfect.
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#99 to #97 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
Only if you have heavy exposure to English. Which is the same as any other language

There's so many ******* exceptions that you might as well not have grammatical rules. That's hard.
**** like Russian is easy. Once you know the rules you can translate anything without a hassle because there are barely any exceptions.
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User avatar #102 to #99 - dantemp (12/20/2015) [-]
I don't know about that. I think my language (Bulgarian) is pretty close to Russian and is hard as **** . We even change the verb depending on the gender of the one doing the action. There are tons and tons of rules plus many exceptions.

The German language is cool tough, Deutsch macht spass.
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User avatar #113 to #102 - tanitakavirius (12/20/2015) [-]
German? easy? From all the languages I know of i would never classifiy it as easy.
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#9 - formerfunchananon (12/19/2015) [-]
Still too logical, try Danish:

79 is spoken like an equation: 9 and (4-½)*20
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#29 to #9 - klutzyspy (12/19/2015) [-]
Which is the same system as the french
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#48 to #29 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
There's no half-scores counted as in the Roman numeral system in the French numbering system mate.
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#109 to #48 - klutzyspy (12/20/2015) [-]
sure anon, Quatre Vingt in no way means four twenties or four scores
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User avatar #110 to #109 - formerfunchananon (12/20/2015) [-]
Okay apparently nobody is reading my post som I'm making this as clear and simple as possible.

For example 97 in the two languages.

Danish: seven and [four score plus] half [of the] fifth score-th
French: four scores and seven.

Of the two languages, my point was that Danish was the most conveluted of them. Not where the systems are from, whether or not the systems are similar.

That French switches between scores and denary systems does even out the score somewhat, until you consider the small number is reversed in Danish and you count half-scores as you would in Roman - even though the rest is based in Arab numbers.

Any other detail is explained here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal
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#111 to #110 - klutzyspy (12/20/2015) [-]
no, french is four scores, ten and seven
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User avatar #112 to #111 - formerfunchananon (12/20/2015) [-]
My mistakee, but the point remains.
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#100 to #9 - anon (12/20/2015) [-]
Guess where you got your system from
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User avatar #107 to #100 - formerfunchananon (12/20/2015) [-]
I have no idea? Vigesimal is a Roman system adopted by lots of peoples - not just the French (and it certainly didn't originate from there).
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User avatar #59 - solomon ONLINE (12/20/2015) [-]
took french for 2 years, fun fact, this is pronounced "cat van dees noof"
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User avatar #69 to #59 - ipwnallnubz (12/20/2015) [-]
Except you have to pronounce van as though you had a cold.
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User avatar #82 - unclefester (12/20/2015) [-]
It's if you were to say 99 in english like this "four twenties plus 10 and a 9". lol
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User avatar #74 - dangler (12/20/2015) [-]
Japanese is great. 20 = two ten, 30 = three ten, 31 = three ten one

Until you get to ten-thousand, that is. They don't go one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand. It's thousand, ten thousand (separate word), ten ten thousand.
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User avatar #94 - sideismss (12/20/2015) [-]
the direction translation is: four twenties and a ten with a nine
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#93 - walmartysnextghost (12/20/2015) [-]
name a famous french mathmatician
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#96 to #93 - discobleach ONLINE (12/20/2015) [-]
this famous motivational speaker was also a mathematician
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#91 - narutolas ONLINE (12/20/2015) [-]
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User avatar #89 - jibb (12/20/2015) [-]
HALV TRES TRES HALV FJÆSS FJÆSS HALV FEMS hundre


Jævla Dansker
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#60 - manholefreddy (12/20/2015) [-]
**manholefreddy used "*roll picture*"**
**manholefreddy rolled image**

Or count with your fingers.
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User avatar #49 - runescapewasgood (12/20/2015) [-]
what makes counting in french worse than counting in english or spanish?
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User avatar #50 to #49 - emiyashirou (12/20/2015) [-]
Because, as the content shows, they say Ninety Nine as "Four Twenty Nineteen"
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User avatar #51 to #50 - emiyashirou (12/20/2015) [-]
Or technically "four twenty ten nine"
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User avatar #101 to #49 - udungoofedup (12/20/2015) [-]
You have to do math to figure out what number you're saying rather than just say the number in English
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User avatar #76 - soule (12/20/2015) [-]
Thumbed for that tag.
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User avatar #81 - CapObvious (12/20/2015) [-]
Come on, where the **** are you, Danish people?
We all know you have the most illogical numerical system in the known universe. gabenschøde
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User avatar #57 - mauerman ONLINE (12/20/2015) [-]
Very much similar to the Danish number system. Everything above 50, is counted as x times 20.

For example, 55 is called femoghalvtredsindstyve.
Fem meaning five, and halvtredsindstyve meaning half three times 20. Half three meaning 2 and a half.

So 2 and a half times 20 is fifty, plus five, equals fiftyfive.
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#66 to #57 - corundumdeath (12/20/2015) [-]
GIF
mf while reading this comment Math+Language=Headache I'll stick to German and english number systems. Neun und neunzig
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#86 to #57 - gerfox (12/20/2015) [-]
I thought 55 was "fem og en halv treds". You learn something new each day I guess.
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User avatar #52 - ridivey (12/20/2015) [-]
does anyone have that tumblr post about all the people arguing about who has the worst numerical system?
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