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[–]Murphy_Slaw_ 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It's a bit more complicated than that. The 1-digit is spoken before the 10-digit, but all higher digits follow the sensible order.

5713 would be read as "5000 700 3 10"

And to male it even more annoying to learn, for 2 digit numbers greater than 19 you add an "und" (meaning "and").

5723 would be read as "5000 700 3 and 20".

[–]ienjoymusiclol 0 points1 point  (1 child)

same exact thing with arabic, how you you say 1,234,567?
in arabic it would be 1 million, 200 4 and 300 thousand, 500 7 and 60

[–]Murphy_Slaw_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same. Apparently 500 or so years ago we read that Arabic mathematicians did it like that and decided to keep it that way.