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We don't really learn the reason, we just memorise the word for the number. Kinda like you know the word "dog" means a four legged cute creature, but not why the name is "dog". The old rules are not something we are teached, I just got curious after a confused foreigner made me think about the system for a second :p

Halvfjerds for 70 but yes. Firs is 80 though, so that doesn't make in much easier.

Fjerde = fourth, fire = four. That makes "half to the fourth" become "halv til fjerde" or "halvfjerds" while "four times twenty" becomes "firsindstyve" and shortened to new Danish "firs"

BMW's are famously known to be in the workshop more often than on the road. My friend's BMW had a type of self-cleaning oil. All he has to do is top off the oil once a month. Just ignore the stain on the parking lot, it's not oil.

It's not like a BMW is more reliable.

Yeah, it's kinda the difference between saying "the clock is currently half past twelve" (the English way) and "the clock is currently half to one" (which we say in Danish and probably in a wealth of non-English languages too).

Correct.

• Half to the second (halvanden, still in use today) = 1.5
• Half to the third (halvtredje) = 2.5
• Half to the fourth (halvfjerde) = 3.5
• Half to the fifth (halvfemte) = 4.5

And so on. You might notice that I sometimes write it like "halvfemte" and other times "halvfems". The latter is just the way it was spelled when used in a combined word (another fun quirk in Danish that we inherited from Germanic this time!). 90 is today spelled just "halvfems".

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.

We actually still say "halvanden" in Danish too. Everything else is not used (except for halvfems which means 90...)

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.

• Half to the five = (5-0.5) = 4.5
• "Sindstyve" = multiplied by 20
• 4.520
• Two and half to the five multiplied by twenty = 2+(5-0.5)20 = 2+4.520 = 2+90 = 92

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.

Y'all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense

Oh shit, he's onto us!

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.

More accurately, Denmark's postal service stops delivering post.

This is a direct consequence of the free market act from 2023 that no longer obligated PostNord to deliver post and stopped paying for the service. It is no surprise that post delivery isn't a profit market, especially in this day and age, so IMO that was a pretty stupid idea from our politicians. Now only Dao delivers post but there's nothing stopping them from saying "this island is too expensive to deliver pos to. Come pick up your shit in the mainland's ferry terminal." And trust me, we have a lot of islands for such a small country.

using GitHub to host our code

I can't possibly think of any way that could backfire.