> I'm holding you Germans responsible for our also stupid number system. do so and especially blame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Empe

> I'm holding you Germans responsible for our also stupid number system. do so and especially blame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emper... to whom Fibonacci dedicated his liber abaci on those fancy new numbers back then. They must have messed it up introducing that to german day-to-day use. They did it in parts arab-ordered (spoken), half reading order, where sensible would have been right-to-left one digit after the other. So you wouldn't even have to count upfront.