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> It's only backwards for the last 2-digit numbers. Once you go into the hundreds and beyond, it's read from left to right. Well, no, because “twenty three tho
by TulliusCicero 5y ago
> It's only backwards for the last 2-digit numbers. Once you go into the hundreds and beyond, it's read from left to right.
Well, no, because “twenty three thousand” will be “three and twenty thousand”. Ditto for millions.
- cryptica 5y agoI guess my knowledge of German is still too basic. I know in the hundreds it goes left to right so I assumed that it would continue until infinity. That is extremely confusing. French and English are very simple and consistent by comparison; you just need to memorize the first 10 to 20 numbers, every 10th number from 0 until 100, every thousandth number from 0 until infinity (or however high you want to know). All the other numbers can be derived using the same simple rules.