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[Map] 99 in different languages (dormi.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes they really didn't want to go the easy way

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

Yeah, and it's wrong.
Nioghalvfems is 9 + 1/2 * 5 * 20!
NOT that silly 9+(4+1/2)*20.

What do they take us for? Calculators?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

9 + 1/2 * 5 * 20

9 + 2.5 * 20

9 + 50

59?

How does nioghalvfems make 99?

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

The graphic is correct. "Halvfems" is shorthand for "halvfemsindstyvende" which roughly means; halfway to the fifth twenty. So 4,5 or 4-1/2 "twenties" so 90. But nobody rally thinks about that. To most Danes "halvfems" is just the name for 90, just like ninety is in English...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It should rather be 9 + (5 - 1/2) * 20. Halvfems is halfway from 4 to 5, but the 5 is the value explicitly mentioned

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes. That is what i said? "Halfway to the fifth" which i clarified to mean 4,5 in this context, so as to not be confused to mean 2,5.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah 5-1/2 is 4.5, but the word "fems" is short for femsindstyvende, which means 5x20, so writing it out as (5-1/2) rather than 4.5 matches the word halvfems more closely. Could also write it out as (-1/2 + 5) i suppose

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not Dane here but I know this:

"fems" is "five twenties"

"halvfems" is "halfway (between 4*20 and) 5*20" = 90

But don't forget that 100 has its own word and isn't fems, still 90 is halvfems.