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2011 was 14 years ago, the game is more than half my age x3
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Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?
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Yeah otherwise that’s a 9 year old posting
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Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?
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Is that a French stereotype I am not aware of? Because, I've got a bit of experience in teaching math, and I wish most kids in that class could speak math naturally.
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Wait. Are you younger than 9? 4.5x3=13.5
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Is that a French stereotype I am not aware of? Because, I've got a bit of experience in teaching math, and I wish most kids in that class could speak math naturally.
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They count very weird. For example to say 89 in french you say four twenties seven (quatre vingt sept) 92 in french is four twenties twelve (quatre vingt douze).
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They count very weird. For example to say 89 in french you say four twenties seven (quatre vingt sept) 92 in french is four twenties twelve (quatre vingt douze).Oh, it's about that. It's just leftover from an old base 20 counting system really. Kind of like how time is still using base 60 (though it's kinda convenient for dividing), stuff like that. Really, English is not completely safe from that. Ask yourself why eleven to nineteen instead of, you know, ten-one, ten-two...
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Sure, you could look at it that way, but an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans. Average human life expectancy is 72 years. Which is, conveniently very close to the age of the oldest video game (an implementation of tic-tac-toe from 1950). Would you call a 14 year old human old? At that point they'd be ~20% of they way through their life.> an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans. We're not talking about humans or their lifespans so no, that is not equally valid Else this 30 year old apple I have is just fine and not old at all, it's not old til it's closer to 72!
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I lucked out living in a place with a completely logical numbering system thankfully :3.. even english is slightly weird with 11 and 12 not following the -teen pattern (guessing a holdover for using dozens/base12)Eleven and twelve still do kinda follow base 10 rules. They literally mean “one left” (ain-lif) and “two left” (twa-lif) with the “over ten” being implied. I'm not quite sure why we have different words for those two, though. Maybe when we added the 'teens, those two just sounded better than firsteen or seconteen?
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14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
