- Half to the five = (5-0.5) = 4.5
- "Sindstyve" = multiplied by 20
- 4.5*20
- Two and half to the five multiplied by twenty = 2+(5-0.5)*20 = 2+4.5*20 = 2+90 = 92
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The reason is that the Danish numbering system is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system instead of the decimal system. Why is a good question but it might have been influenced by French during a time where numbers from 50-100 is less frequently used, making them prone to complexity. The fractions simply occur since you need at least one half of twenty (10) to make the change from e.g 50 to 60 in a 20-based system.
Even worse. 90 in old Danish is "halvfemsindstyve" but it is rarely used today. The "sinds" part is derived from "sinde" means multiplied with but it is not in use in Danish anymore. That leaves halvfems, meaning half to the five (which is not used alone anymore) and tyve meaning twenty (as it still does).
We are in current Danish shortening it to halvfems which actually just means "half to the five" in old Danish (2.5) to say 90. 92 is then "tooghalvfems" (two and half to the five, or 2+2.5). The "sindstyve" part (multiplied with 20) fell out of favour.
So we at least have some rules to the madness. Were just not following them at all anymore.
I opened Lemmy on a packed bus this morning and got the full blast...
Self hosted doesn't necessarily mean hosted at home. Some of my stuff is for example hosted in a French datacenter for redundancy. At one point it was my only server space since hosting at home wasn't feasible at that time.
It's not space that's hard. It's the stuff you encounter when you run out of space that's hard.
The US already has a deal with Denmark basically allowing them unlimited presence on Greenland. A takeover changes nothing except now there's no "buffer state" between the US and Russia.
I’d be okay with that, honestly
Well, good news then! If you wait a few billion years the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy.
using GitHub to host our code
I can't possibly think of any way that could backfire.
That is some unexpectedly good news. I'm looking forward to see the results of an EU based search index.
Is that Cheeto flavoured soda?
No idea. We probably had a period where we traded a lot with the French and got influenced by the vigesimal system that way, creating the abomination of a Frankenstein monster we have today.