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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks agoSorry to ping you a bunch with replies. I’m curious now, do you have unique numeral symbols for the numbers after 9?
Comment on Fucking hell
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks agoSorry to ping you a bunch with replies. I’m curious now, do you have unique numeral symbols for the numbers after 9?
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
No, we use the same numeral symbols as everyone else. We just pronounce it in the most unintuitive manner possible.
I can imagine that we once had symbols representing the base 20 system but standardised at some point to decimal symbols. I though haven’t encountered any piece of history to back that up.