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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Chinese say 1 hundred 9 ten 6 as an added data point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That pretty much makes sense - and the American manner makes sense, it's just so similar to what I'm familiar with, but slightly different, so looks really wrong to my brain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Germans say 1 hundred 6 and 9 ten... Because Germans like to be special. Learning German makes me appreciate Chinese and English counting. Although the -hundred delimitation confuses foreign speakers. Such as 15-hundred is actually 1,500