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interestingly, in Chinese you would say 1k1h8 when pronouncing the numbers

• zelphirkalt 2y ago
  But then they have that annoying rule about saying a "zero" when there is a 0 for a magnitude between non-zero digits, for example 108 is one-hundred-zero-eight.
  • suzakus 2y ago
    That's because in Chinese it's the higher digit having priority in emissions - if you don't specify zero the it means 180
    • zelphirkalt 2y ago
      Yeah that is weird. Because usually a "十" would mark the ten-count anyway, so saying a single digit could only be the ones-count, but they interpret it then differently to mean 80, even if you do not say "十". To me this is not logical and is unintuitive.
      • iopq 2y ago
        It's actually much easier When people say in English one hundred thousand one thousand and ten, you will need to visualize the digits 101,010 But in Chinese you say 10 * 10^4, 1 * 10^3, 0, 1 * 10 the zero helps you write a zero after the second one without making a mistake