@andrewhelmer47 The explanation is interesting too.
paraphrased "the least significant digits are said first, like "one and twenty" instead of "twenty one", so it's like Hammersley, but in base 10."
There is a society (Verein) that wants to change that.
They demand! that the German language changes!
And there are at least seven of them. That is the number you neev for a registered society (e.V.)
@demofox pretty much you organize your number output by saying "one and twenty", "two and twenty", and son on, as opposed to the way numbers are organized in most other languages ( if not all others!)
@demofox phanpy warned me when I boosted that there wasn't alt text. May I suggest some?
Four graphs titled "The Numbers 0-99 Sorted Alphabetically In..." for English, French, Spanish and German. For English, French*, and Spanish, the graphs have prominent clusters, but for German the plane is covered pretty evenly. A note at the bottom: "*specifically French as spoken in France (Belgian and Swiss French use a decimal system for 60-99)"
@demofox@andrewhelmer47 So what this is saying, in a roundabout fashion, that in German number words are more distinct from each other, and less easily confused?
@demofox@jens No, it's because you say the digits the other way around. 21, 31, 41, 51 etc. all start with the word for "one", 22, 32, 42, 52 etc. start with the word for "two". I don't know what the person who did this graph thought they were proving.
@demofox Huh... I thought surely it was a joke, but it seems not. A quick search shows that that to say 53, instead of saying "50, 3", you would say "3, 50". I guess that makes sense!
@slembcke@demofox 53 would be „drei und fünfzig“ (correctly written without the spaces so dreiundfünfzig) or translated in english „three and fifty“. In german we have an „und“ between the numbers
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