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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Are all German numbers like that?

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (9 children)

No, it gets more confusing the more numbers you add. 34563 4+30 thousand +500 3+60

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Ow my brain.

Also funny because I had assumed English got the numbering system from German.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think they used to do it in English as well. For example I remember Jane Austen using both twenty-one and one-and-twenty. So I'm guessing it used to be the same as in German, then for some time you could use both and now one-and-twenty is not used anymore.

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