• Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    14 hours ago

    *Puts on glasses* Akchually, that’s only if you’re counting 10’s, since we count 1’s as decimal and 10’s in pairs of snes/snaes (20), hence fifty is half three snes or 3*20-0.5*20 = (3-0.5)*20 = 50.

    Or if you’re talking 1’s, aka. decimal, you’d just remove the snes part, since common math is in decimal anyway, so half 3 decimal would be 3*1-0.5*1 = 3-0.5 = 2.5.

    EDIT: Fun fact: 100, aka. “en hundrede/one hundred”, can therefore also be called “fems” or “fem snes/five snaes”. And then there’s the ones who actually say “in twenty” instead of “snes”, so it’d be “fem i tyvende”.

    • TimeRonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I would really like to understand more, why do you simplify 320-0.520 as (3-0.5)*20? Is this system actually insightful into arithmetic? Is there a good tutorial about such and such?

      • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Well, it is just arithmetics.

        The left side of the equation is just the natural expansion of the paranthesis to signify and drive home the point that we’re specifically talking half off 20.

        The middle is how it’s usually represented and follows best practices. Aka. Simplifying the equation without touching the variables and constants.

        The right side is the result for calculating the equation.

        I’m unsure of any tutorials regarding the danish counting system, though there’s bound to be some. :)

        Did I misunderstand the question?

      • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        7·
        16 hours ago

        Oh no, no game, that’s how you enable the dev tools in retro-future mode. :p

    • cooltrainer_frank@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      16 hours ago

      Det ved jeg godt :)

      But it’s fun to show that meme off. Danish numbers are wild. My bad danish gets me mistaken numbers all the time

      • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Tænkte det nok x)

        It’s just fun to blow some non-Danes’ minds every now and again. <3

        • NochMehrG@feddit.orgEnglish
          5·
          15 hours ago

          So that’s why Duolingo hides numbers from us! (And probably also why Danish people switch to English or German no matter if you start in Danish or not…)

    • techt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      puts on novelty slinky eye glasses

      Fascinating.

      Also, small thing:

      3*1 - 0.5*1 = 3 - 0.5 = 2.5 ----------------^