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Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power
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Well, I DO know how the French count and compared to English it IS highly confusing. You can hardly convince me that saying "Four times twenty and ten" is as straight forward as saying "Nine tens".
And just to be clear: I'm not some Yankee or Brit with a superiority complex, no, I am German, and we have our own shitty version of this: Instead of moving along the digits from highest to lowest, as in "Four hundreds and two tens and nine", we do "Four hundred and nine and two tens".
It's less confusing if you think of 70 and 90 as separate words without trying to analyze what its constituting words mean.
But etymologically, sure, it makes no sense.
And don't even get started with Danish.
Wow, it’s like US uses metric system for counting and y’all do “imperial counting”
It indeed is.
English is less consistent, going from nine-teen to twenty-one. German stays consistent with its lower two digits.
From 11 to 19 is always kind of weird in many languages. In Italian you go from essentially saying "one-ten" "two-ten"..."six-ten" to "ten-seven" "ten-eight" "ten-nine". Then it goes in like in English. Why? No reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What the hell is wrong with y'all?
The dude was saying people are angry at you because they don’t understand, not that you dont understand.
So they count like the danes? 79,5 in danish would be "ni og en halv fjers komma fem".
We used to do this in Norway too, but it's dying out now, because "Telegrafverket" made an effort to kill it, as it would make things easier for phone operators. Unfortunately it worked.