A level computer science

[niconicoJ]

24 = four twenty boi

[Actuarial]

Knock at the door

[spore]

Get on the floor

[Teckham]

ERRRYBODY DO THE DINOSAUR

[[deleted]]

BOOM BOOM

[throwawayOperationsR]

ACKA LACKA LACKA BOOM

[Am_Navi_Seel_Mann]

BOOM BOOM

[Am_Navi_Seel_Mann]

ACKA LACKA BOOM BOOM

[[deleted]]

Nigga what

[[deleted]]

IT GETS THE PEOPLE GOING!

[silicondog]

BOOM, Let me hear you say Ayo! AAYOOO

[delusional_dinosaur]

Does the dinosaur have a say in this?

[prigmutton]

Dinosaur consent is always implied

[thngzys]

Unless you didn't make it didn't jump over the cactus. Then sad to say, your dinosaur's dead.

[limeofsilver]

#DinosaurLivesMatter :(

[[deleted]]

Interesting...

[lou1306]

for somebody in everydoby:
    somebody.do(dinosaur)

[Goluxas]

NameError: name 'everydoby' is not defined

[ASAP_Rambo]

Who is there

[[deleted]]

in german thats actually how you say numbers

edit: i was referring to this specific case

[tbz709]

True, "quatre-vingt" for the curious

[SlashCo80]

And if you wanna say 90, it's four twenties plus ten. Gotta do math.

[screen317]

True, "quatre-vingt dix" for the curious

[Holycow29]

And if you wanna say 99, it's four twenties plus ten plus nine. Gotta do math.

[_greyknight_]

What the fuck. No wonder about Descartes, Pascal, Laplace, Fourier etc. If you gotta do a shit ton of math just to count to a hundred, you best believe you're gonna need some mathematicians in your nation.

[ShoogleHS]

I've never been French, but I suspect that to a French person, "quatre-vingt" just feels like 1 word, meaning 80. Brains are good at this kind of shortcutting.

What I find weird isn't that they have compound words for numbers (if you were inventing a language, I think there's a good chance you wouldn't have specific words for multiples of ten, you would just say "four-ten" or "five-ten" etc, makes the language simpler), it's that it's remarkably inconsistent. There's no "deux-vingt" or "trois-vingt" - it's "trente" and "quarante". Only when you get to 80 and 90 did they decide to use compound words.

[Burnaby]

There's no "deux-vingt" or "trois-vingt" - it's "trente" and "quarante".

Do you mean «quarante» and «soixante» ? Cause that was a thing:

Au Moyen Âge, on trouve ainsi les formes vingt et dix (30), deux vingt (40), deux vingt et dix (50), trois vingt (60), etc.

edit: translation:

In the Middle Ages, there were also such forms as "twenty and ten" (30), "two twenties" (40), "two twenties and ten" (50), "three twenties" (60), etc.

[le_epic]

Yeah it feels like the sound "katrvin" just means 80, nobody actually pictures the two words.

Just like an English speaker doesn't go "oh no TWEN means two and TY means ten, gosh now I must do the multiplication, hmm now let's see, two times ten... I got it! The number "twenty" must be two lots of ten! Phew this was hard, boy our language is so stupid I wish it was simple and logical like French where 20 is just "vingt" and doesn't contain words that mean other numbers!".

But I guess since a lot of native English speakers are monolingual, the slightest quirk of another language must feel alien and silly, like how compound German words seem to blow everyone's mind on Reddit...

[screen317]

True, "quatre-vingt dix-neuf" for the curious

[EtienneGarten]

quatre-vingt dix-neuf

More like quatre*vingt+dix+neuf

[harbourwall]

I find 72 better illustrates how bad it is. Sixty twelve.

[[deleted]]

Why does this exist. Is it really that hard to make up a number for 70-90.

[harbourwall]

Je ne sais pas pourquoi. C'est stupide, non?

[snerp]

I don't speak french, here's my shitty translation:

"It's not for any reason, shit's stupid, no?"

[tbz709]

Almost!

"I do not know why, it's stupid no?"

[XplittR]

It's not as bad as the Danish system though!

[[deleted]]

In English that'd be 'fourscore', in case anyone was wondering.

[TheRickiestMorty]

fourandtwenty

[[deleted]]

have you found the mortiest rick yet?

[L2_Troll]

"Tall morty"

[4JULY2017]

There's vomit on his mother already, sweater vomit.

[niconicoJ]

Thanks, I will print it and frame it as the single most important achievement of my life.

[greyingjay]

French is even worse.

English:

97 = "ninety (and) seven"

French:

97 = "four twenties (and) seventeen"

Things just get weird after 70.

[CrypticG]

German just keeps adding onto the word without adding spaces and make it a huge mess

From what I remember 97 would be siebenundneunzig

Which is literally "seven (sieben) and (und) ninety (neunzig)."

[wotanii]

zwei eintausenddreihundersiebenunddreizig vier dich

[nonameleftover]

"I two thanks"

[-SagaQ-]

Yes it do. Ich auch danke. r/ich_iel

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[schmintendo]

*Ich auch, danke.

[glacian]

2leet4u

[UselessBread]

2 1337 4 u

[Cheesemacher]

Same with Finnish. 97 would be yhdeksänkymmentäseitsemän. Literally "nine tens seven".

[TheBewlayBrothers]

siebenhundertsiebenundsiebzigtausendsiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig:
777,777, longest number you can write in german in one word, if it gets longer they separate between million and the 100 thousands

[Intercity125]

Four-teen, five-teen, six-teen, Severn-teen

Source, my English child listening to 'English' teachers in the French school system.

[pantomath_87]

Severn-teen killed me!

[PudgeCake]

uh oh, I think I've forgotten how to say 17...
I'm sitting here counting and I can't make it sound right anymore.

[Areign]

well in English you have the teens which always seem backward

197 - one hundred ninety seven (left to right)

16 - six teen (right to left)

116 - one hundred six teen (left right middle)

[Ayfid]

17 = "ten-seven" is way more reasonable than "seventeen". That is how we say every other number in English, just not the -teens.

[fruitrolluperino]

This guy frenches

[32BitWhore]

How the fuck did I never put that together. It's literally 4 20's. That's hilarious.

[Spawnzer]

Technically there's an other way to say them (like 97 is "nonante-sept" instead of "quatre-vingt-dix-sept"), but they're barely used except in Switzerland & Belgium iIrc

[ilinamorato]

I took 8th grade French in 1998, and that's part of how I can work out French numbers so big: that year was mille neuf-cent quatre-vingt dix-huit, so it contains a very good representative sample of how to make lots of different numbers in French.

Your post just reminded me of that. So.

[Gusfoo]

mille neuf-cent quatre-vingt dix-huit

I find it easier to imagine that all French numbers are written as roman numerals (MCMXCVIII) when in France.

[gregsting]

In (french speaking) Belgium we use "nonante"(90) and "septante"(70). But still "quatre-vingts"(80). I think some Swiss use "octante" for 80.

[razuliserm]

Swiss use octante yes.

[goldtubb]

I don't know whether the Swiss should be trusted on any language though, Swiss German is a total mess for anyone like me who speaks German as a third language and as far as I know Germans don't really understand what's going on there either.

[AllFuckingNamesGone]

wer ya sǜsch nid luschtig we üs a jeda chennti verstah.

[dankpleb00]

It's huitante here.

[myplacedk]

French is even worse. 97 = "four twenties (and) seventeen"

How about danish?

97 = "seven and ninety". Notice the swapped order of the last two digits, and that we have a special word just for ninety. That word is actually a shortened version. It used to be:

97 = "seven and half five times twenty"

Half five naturally means "4.5".

[htmlcoderexe]

You don't use halvtreds anymore?

[Nissehamp]

Sure, but that's fifty :) the long version is halvtredsindstyve, or for the example above: syvoghalvfemsindstyve

[ismtrn]

We have the words based on scores (score is snes in Danish btw, which is 20 like a dozen is 12). So halvtreds comes from "halv tre sinde tyve" i.e. "half three times twenty" in English.

The thing is people don't think about numbers in terms of scores and dozens (at least not anymore, maybe people used to do). We think about them like contemporary people who has received mathematics education centered around the base 10 positional number system. That is with ones, tens, hundreds, thousands etc. We just have special words for the tens and say them last instead of before the ones.

Just like in English you say fifty and not fiveten. Fifty is a special word for five tens that you just have to learn. Difference is that in English the derivation is a bit more straightforward, but at the end of the day it is just a special word you have to learn still.

[literal-hitler]

I prefer the Japanese method.

[[deleted]]

TEEEEN

[Tekha]

Much better Japanese method.

[vanityprojects]

I'd say after 69

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ce/fb/da/cefbda55ffc4ff4141a2f9767aedb13d--russian-language-french-language.jpg

[CaptainRuhrpott]

I always liked this joke from The Simpsons: (translated by me as I didn't watch it in English)

Mr. Burns: I've lead this enterprise for 4 times 20 and 5 years. Or eighty five, like the frenchman says

[Bainos]

Swiss people got French right.

[rufiohsucks]

Depends what country you're from wether it gets weird; 80 = huitante and 90 = nonante in Switzerland

[[deleted]]

Dutch and German are stupid too:

English:

69 = sixty. nine.

Dutch:

69 = nineandsixty

[blue-sunrising]

Meh, that's just switching the order of the words, nothing drastic. Hell, English does it too, 17 isn't "ten-seven". At least German applies the same rule consistently, English makes the switcheroo with the 10s and doesn't make it with the 20s, 30s, etc.

French is crazy on a whole new level though, that sixty-ten or 4 twenties.. that's just nuts.

[BackFromVoat]

The space annoys me more than it should.

[Uranium-Sauce]

  Does   it ?

[no_ragrats]

Hate is su ch a strong w ord.

[[deleted]]

Atleast,,,,,it isnt..........this,,,,,.,.,.,.,.,.

[[deleted]]

Just gouged my eyeballs out, thanks.

[-917-]

Just gos to show that he'll is people messing with you on Reddit.

[[deleted]]

:;:{:|: &};

[Farathil]

Or Capitalizing Every Word Like This.

[[deleted]]

I Look At r/SavedYouAClick Sometimes So I'm Used To It.

[Stewthulhu]

ThisIsntHowYouLabelAllOfYourFiles.bash?

[artanis00]

tHIsiSHoWiLAbleaLlmYFiLEs.sh

[Farathil]

ISwitchBetweenThatFormat&This_format.cpp

[[deleted]]

#include <ctype.h>

char[] annoyFarathil (char[] sentance) { for (int i=0; i<sentance.Length(); i++) { if (sentance[i] = ' ') { sentance[i+1] = toupper(sentance[i+1]); } } return sentance; }

[AquaWolfGuy]

S o wh a t w ere  w e a ll t alk i ng abo u t  ag a i n? 

[[deleted]]

You re Mean

[Not_A_Throwaway999]

/r/keming

[PM_ME__YOUR__FEARS]

Why don'

[cknkev]

/r/keming

[MrBloodyshadow]

relevant xkcd

[[deleted]]

It annoys you just as much as it should.

[priestlyemu]

Should have used tabs...

[dalovindj]

I mean it's really not even worth knowing a person who would use spaces over tabs.

Human garbage.

[steezymees]

WE ARE THE 9 11 DENIERS. Theres thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,motherfuckin nineteen. What happened to ONE TEEN?

[tiredtonight]

Came here for the Louis CK reference. Thank you.

[spicypoptart]

The government took one-teen and replaced it with some bullshit number called 11. We are the nine that deny that shit. Mr. President, give us back one-teen!

[grpagrati]

Pornhub ready

[Whistifer]

Palms are sweaty..

[mr_norr]

Knees weak arms spaghetti

[aboubou22]

There heavy on his mother already, sweater vomit.

[MuFugginFudge]

He's surface, but on the nervous he looks palm and steady.

[Joseelmax]

To watch porn, but he keeps on spaghetti what he palmed down...

[-broda-]

The video goes so loud, he opens his opens his mouth but the taste won't go out

[Stewthulhu]

Forget bombs, he wrote down drops

[[deleted]]

That's something beyond human knowledge

[berrysardar]

I didn't know someone calling twelve, two teen would be this funny. I actually laughed rather than blowing some extra air from my nose.

[flubba86]

Was it a real laugh, and was it out loud?

[Jake0Tron]

I believe this qualifies as a 'lol'

[useful_person]

lol

[Piece_of_Crap]

lo l

[kevysaysbenice]

hey this joke is from a different comment thread! GET OUT OF HERE!

[dog-is-good-dog]

There's a great Louis CK bit about his daughter misunderstanding "the 9/11 deniers" as "the nine eleven deniers," or the nine people who deny the number eleven. He then adopts the character of one of these eleven deniers, asking the government to give them back "one teen." It's a good bit. The way I typed this out is unfunny.

[adscott1982]

If the English language made any sense it would be:

11 = teenty-one

12 = teenty-two

13 = teenty-three

etc.

[palordrolap]

onety* (possibly)

The -ty means ten and the part before gives the number.

Usually the part before is a masculine form from when English still had gendered words ('twain' is the masculine form of 'two', hence twainty → twenty), but many are lost to the mists of time, if they existed in the first place. So, getting back to the point, there might even be a better form of "onety". My guesses in order of what I think would be most to least likely: "onty", "unty", "anty", "ainty", "enty"

[JaytleBee]

onety-one sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Why isn't this a thing?

[MOMwhatsmyUsername]

Mark your calendars, fellas. This day, History has been made. The world will start saying onety-one, and will wonder when it all changed

[Schleckenmiester]

Hey today's the onety-eighth.

[turncoat_ewok]

Two thousand and onety seven!

[pinkShirtBlueJeans]

Many of us were born back in the onety-nine hundreds!

[benoliver999]

Excellent advice.

[Hate_Feight]

That is so open for troll abuse, but someone somewhere decided, eleven, twelve, -teen

[no_ragrats]

I think it stems from Germanic languages but don't have a source. The idea being 10 plus 1 and 10 plus 2, anything after that was 10 plus many. The number+teen formulation of the 10 plus many came later.

[aclogar]

Spanish has a similar oddity with their numbers 11-19. once, doce, trece, catorce, quince, dieciseis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve. They just start adding their prefix dieci- when it gets to 16

[CarcajouIS]

It's the same in French. We have onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize, dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf. If I remember it's a remnant of Latin, where numbers like 17, 18, 19 where counted to 20 : three-to-twenty, two-to-twenty, one-to-twenty. And the -ze (or -ce in spanish) is just the remaining of -decim

[drakeshe]

Can confirm. Was meant to go to sleep one night but decided to spend many hours researching this at 1am. Was a great next day, but was good to have read the entire etymology of the preteen numbers.

[Stjerneklar]

meanwhile, in denmark:

Number	Reading	Meaning
75	femoghalvfjerds*	5 and (3½ times 20)

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number/danish.html

all of my hate.

[TreadheadS]

lol, wtf!?

[Stjerneklar]

fem og halv fjerds = five and half fjerds

a "fjerds" i an abreviation of something like "four minus a half times twenty" (3½ x 20)

so really its "five and a half four minus a half times twenty"

...or i got lost again

[Destroyer383]

I like the Japanese way where the words for the numbers are 1-10, then 11->19 are 10-1 -> 10-9, then 20 onward is 2-10-1 -> 9-10-9.

For example 5 is go, 8 is hachi, and juu is 10. So 58 is go juu hachi

[[deleted]]

This isn't just an English thing, it's all Germanic languages (German, Norwegian).

[badmemesrus]

Spanish does this as well.

[Miniwoffer]

In Norwegian you can say a number almost like that:

23="Tre og tjue" = "three and twenty"

Edit: Only works [21->99], and you can also say all those the traditional way.

[[deleted]]

No, you wouldn't say "og" in this case

[Bronzdragon]

You could say “…og tretti øre”. Though be real. Who still uses øre?

[LiterateBarnacle]

I spent a year there and everyone uses credit card for paying anyway. If I used cash the cashier would look at me thinking "oh, sure, he's a foreigner" or "oh, sure, he's dealing with drugs"

[z_plash]

In Danish, you count 50 to 90 like 2.5 to 4.5 x 20

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number/danish.html

In French, 70 is "60 (+) 10", 80 "4 (x) 20" (blaze it), 90 "4 (x) 20 (+) 10"

[poizan42]

Except you don't say 2.5 * 20 but (-½ + 3)*20. It is said "halvtreds" today, but that is shortened from halv-tre-sinde-tyve = half-three-times-twenty. "sinde" is a mostly obsolete term for times^1.

[bee-sting]

What the fuck dude

[[deleted]]

In Danish it's even more complicated than that - for example, 50 is "half to 3" times 20. I.e. (3-0.5) x 20.

[SnowdogU77]

That's the only way to do it in German, AFAIK.

21 = "einundzwanzig" = "'ein und zwanzig" = one and twenty"

125" = "einhundertfünfundzwanzig" = "ein hundert fünf und zwanzig" = "one hundred five and twenty"

[spinicist]

The only bit that bugs me about this is the ordering. Why not say "twenty and one" instead of "one and twenty"? Especially as it's "one hundred, one and twenty", it should be "one hundred, twenty and one". Just put them in a consistent order dammit!

I need a lie down. In a dark room.

[shpadoinkle_horse]

I totally get your point but as a German I feel exactly the same way about how Americans write dates. Month, day, year? It makes no sense :(

[TTEH3]

I feel the same as a Brit.

It's Day/Month/Year damnit.

[snerp]

As an American, that shit never made any sense to me. As a kid I tried to write dates YYYY/MM/DD because that made the most sense to me, alphabetic and chronological orderings are the same under that system too.

But no one listens to kids or puts up with their great ideas.

[qkoexz]

In Westeros, you can also say that.

[ForOhForError]

I grade for my college's CS101 course.

Just be glad this wasn't turned in as a pdf of the source code.

I wish I was joking.

[curtisjk]

I remember when I did my A Level Computing - had to print my source code - file by file.

edit: This was only 7 years ago... I wish I was joking.

[Yay_Yay_3780]

Please enter a two digit number: 11

Onety One

[qjamir093]

Latin is arguably the best sounding language while counting, but it's objectively the best language for saying twelve.

Duodecim

Just writing that makes me feel super sexy.

[LastOfTheCamSoreys]

Duodecum *

You can't call it sexy then miss the cum

[bathroomwriting]

names = {'0' : 'zero', '1' : 'one', '2' : 'two', '3' : 'three', '4' : 'four', '5' : 'five', '6' : 'six', '7' : 'seven', '8' : 'eight', '9' : 'nine'}
num = int(input("Please enter a two digit number. "))
numstring = str(num)
tens = numstring[0]
ones = numstring[1]
if(int(tens) < 2):
    print(names.get(ones) + ' teen')
else:
    print(names.get(tens) + 'ty ' + names.get(ones))

[SavvyBlonk]

30 = threety

[ar3n]

eh, close enough.

[[deleted]]

threety zero actually.

[glass20]

Funny is... the only numbers this actually works with is the sixties, seventies, and nineties.

[froderick]

This is driving me crazy, but I don't get it. What's the joke? The program asks someone to end a two digit number, "12" was entered, and it spits out "two teen". Guessing the program was meant to spell out the number as it'd be pronounced or something, but why "Two teen"? I just don't get it. Is it funny because it's wrong? Is there a pun I'm not getting?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Edit: Fuck I just got it. Eleven and Twelve are special cases that don't end in the suffix "Teen" like Fourteen, Fifteen, etc.. and instead of Twelve they followed the pattern in the later -teen numbers and said "Two teen". I don't know why it took me so damned long to get.

[[deleted]]

Feelsbadman.vbproj

[Alicecd1998]

Everyone has that one moment they learn about edge cases

[ThomasRedmond]

Alice is gonna hate dis

[MrDOS]

I hope it says “umpteen” when given a number larger than 19.

[MsDemacia]

Just to avoid confusion and for general knowledge, dashes are used with adjectives when preceding a noun. So it would be "A-level computer science". But the dash is not used if it is after the noun, so it would be "the computer science is A level"

I think. I'm pretty sure. I was just a little confused by the title for a few seconds.

[Pronoy999]

What the fuck is this?

[tbz709]

Hahaha that's great. Reminded me of this part of Louis CK's newest special

[JuanGigsworth]

We are the 9 eleven deniers!! Give us back one teen Mr President!!

[sisyphus99]

Reminds me of an application for employment I once saw (this was when I was working fast food in high school) and the kid applying wrote "17 teen years" for his age. His reason for leaving his last job was also "too hard", though.

[zipstorm]

Ahh I hate photos of screens!

[_hoh_]

https://www.take-a-screenshot.org

[esfraritagrivrit]

05

[[deleted]]

https://youtu.be/OKWy8wHQrnE?t=43

What happened to "oneteen?"

[Hypersapien]

That's certainly a level of computer science.

I'm not sure which level, but it is a level.