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Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power (www.pv-magazine.com)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

People seem to be angry at you for not knowing how the French count. My condolences. I found it funny tho. Have un upvote

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow, it’s like US uses metric system for counting and y’all do “imperial counting”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

It indeed is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It supposedly comes from originaly counting in base 20 ( a.k.a : vigesimal system) in some proto-european language. There are traces of it in breton, albanese, basque and danish for example. Even in english, there is a reminiscence of vigesimal, in the "score", see for example Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "Fourscore and seven years ago..." means 87 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

But Basque isnt an Indo-European language its a Paleo-European isolate. Cultural mixing not with standing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

And don't even get started with Danish.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

What the hell is wrong with y'all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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”.

English is less consistent, going from nine-teen to twenty-one. German stays consistent with its lower two digits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The dude was saying people are angry at you because they don’t understand, not that you dont understand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Soixante-quinze virgule neuf vs soixante-dix-neuf virgule cinq.

Easy peasy!

Edit: it wasn't easy peasy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I wish I could give fourtwentytennine upvotes to help