MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago6 January 1988sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1135
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minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-24 days agoPossibly the best take on “imaginary numbers” in history. Also, Eleventeen itself is a nice reference to Old English, I think my first experience with such a number was Bilbo Baggins’ Eleventy-First birthday.
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoSimilarly, in some non-English languages, saying the equivalent of thirty-twelve instead of forty-two is how it works.
minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days ago“four times twenty and seventeen” in French is the funniest I saw it get.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoDutch is worse. Just like their language in general.
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoFurther aren’t there a handful of cultures that work on something other than base 10 like Sumerians using base 60?
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoYep, although I can’t speak about the current ones (if any). Separately, I wonder if the thirty-twelve is also an early reference to Hitchhiker’s?
Possibly the best take on “imaginary numbers” in history.
Also, Eleventeen itself is a nice reference to Old English, I think my first experience with such a number was Bilbo Baggins’ Eleventy-First birthday.
Similarly, in some non-English languages, saying the equivalent of thirty-twelve instead of forty-two is how it works.
“four times twenty and seventeen” in French is the funniest I saw it get.
Dutch is worse. Just like their language in general.
Further aren’t there a handful of cultures that work on something other than base 10 like Sumerians using base 60?
Yep, although I can’t speak about the current ones (if any).
Separately, I wonder if the thirty-twelve is also an early reference to Hitchhiker’s?