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]]>https://forum.ieu.app/topic/c762d6d0-79bf-4f9d-b9bb-1fe5056227f6/70-sixty-ten-80-four-twenties-90-four-twenty-tenRSS for NodeSat, 05 Sep 2026 20:34:49 GMTSat, 15 Aug 2026 11:56:43 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:04:38 GMT]]>English still does this for numbers <20

Germanic languages also have fun names for 11 and 12, which basically mean "one left over" and "two left over".

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/27575954https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/27575954Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:04:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:38 GMT]]>So does Danish, they just had the weird math on top because they had to beat both French and German.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12517417https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12517417Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:21 GMT]]>You (meaning the US) had 200 years to undo one mistake and you failed.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27610989https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27610989Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:18:20 GMT]]>What's wrong with "five hundred five and fifty thousand five hundred five and fifty"? /s

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12517389https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12517389Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:18:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:15:44 GMT]]>Dutch timekeeping, on the other hand...

What time is it? Why, ten before half 4, of course. A very normal and sane way of telling the time.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311979https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311979Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:15:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:12:45 GMT]]>The Dutch say the final number before the second last. 23 in Dutch is pronounced 3 and 20, 64 is 4 and 60.

Annoying AF.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311952https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311952Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:12:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:12:00 GMT]]>Four score and seven years ago...

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311941https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311941Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:12:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:58:10 GMT]]>English doesn't have proper words for 13 to 19.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/24835235https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/24835235Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:58:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:55:24 GMT]]>That is a proper base-20 heritage. May you live to six-twenties.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://jlai.lu/comment/22653310https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://jlai.lu/comment/22653310Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:55:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:49:04 GMT]]>Dutch tens are all pretty "normal" do you mean Danish? (Danish uses a x20 math for 60 and 80, but then 50, 70, and 90 are 2.5*20, 3.5*20, 4.5*20, except they dropped the "times 20" in the words over time)

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27266628https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27266628Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:49:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:28:25 GMT]]>US units have all been redefined in relation to metric, so technically they use metric just with wierd factors

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14472979https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://feddit.org/comment/14472979Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:28:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:15:31 GMT]]>Jus wait until you find out how the Dutch count.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311171https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311171Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:15:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:15:21 GMT]]>The main conversions would be betwren meters and centimeters ot in your case feet and inches. Those happen way more often.

And as soon as you get slightly out of most everyday lives but still quite everyday into the realm of unit conversion betwren different things like volume, speed, power what have you imperial just falls apart.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311170https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25311170Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:15:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:42:58 GMT]]>Thank you, would you then like some info on the old British monetary system? Fartings, guineas, halfpences and the likes?

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25310670https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25310670Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:42:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:41:38 GMT]]>And yards...and Fahrenheits!

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25310647https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25310647Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:41:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:38:53 GMT]]>God forbid units used by the average person in everyday life are easily converted between, not resulting in things like 'how many feet are in a mile'.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25310610https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25310610Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:38:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:23:11 GMT]]>The celts counted in twenties, none of your roman bs.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15995229https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15995229Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:23:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:22:17 GMT]]>So does in Switzerland, Congo and Vallée d'Aoste.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15995219https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15995219Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:22:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:37:02 GMT]]>Yeah, thats why metric is better. Sigfigs are better than fractions and weird conversions.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15994837https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15994837Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:37:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:35:22 GMT]]>Fun fact: the moon landing was programmed and calculated in metric.

So, laughs in moon landing units.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15994817https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://fedia.io/m/memes@lemmy.world/t/4259314/-/comment/15994817Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:35:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:33:56 GMT]]>Yeah I hate when I have to convert temperatures between systems, and then the nice round numbers that represent common values used in everyday life like 0, 20, 30, 40, and 100 become absolutely nonsensical values like 32, 68, 86, 104 and 212

Metric measurements are only decimals in North America because things are fabricated to be round imperial numbers for the American market. When you buy a piece of lumber in Europe it's cut to 45x95mm which (shockingly) converts to the absolutely nonsensical 1.77165x3.74016 inch two by four

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/24833208https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.ca/comment/24833208Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:33:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:24:52 GMT]]>I love having to use 4 words to describe the number 99 (cope)

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25309556https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25309556Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:24:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:18:05 GMT]]>You really easily fall for ragebait, don't you?

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://sopuli.xyz/comment/25130526https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://sopuli.xyz/comment/25130526Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:18:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten on Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:16:57 GMT]]>Oligarchs hijack the government to oppose the will of people, obviously that means every single US American wholeheartedly supports their oppressors. You must read so many books to be that smart.

]]>https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12515292https://forum.ieu.app/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12515292Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:16:57 GMT