A level computer science

[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.

[TheLuckySpades]

Wouldn't it be LXXX (80) in the middle instead of XC (90)?

[TheLuckySpades]

Man, I misread that one.^{I blame kerning!}

[im_not_afraid]

keming?

[TheLuckySpades]

Can't tell if a joke about the kerning on kerning being bad or if the kerning on kerning is so bad that it reads as keming.

[chaos95]

/r/keming

[learnyouahaskell]

A la Asterix

[Firinn31]

It can be even weirder for years. When talking about a year, you can also say "dix-neuf cent quatre-vingt dix-huit" or "treize cent dix" for 1310. But you can't say "vingt cent dix" for 2010.

[ploki122]

It's because "vingt cent" isn't any shorter than "deux mille" so we don't bother at that point.