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0 pointsvanderZwan4y ago0 comments

> It was "deem" "impossible" for a human to calculate

I live in Malmö so you have to understand I'm obliged to make a "well no wonder given the Danish counting system" joke here

> Fifty is halvtreds, which stands for halvtredje-sinds-tyve, meaning “third half times twenty”, or “two scores plus half of the third score” [2½ 20]*

https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-danish/e...

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gsliepen4y ago

Indeed it is a very weird way of counting. It was a question on Code Golf a few years ago:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/92657/count-to-...

What is remarkable here is that usually there are a lot of answers in dedicated golfing languages that can solve seemingly very complex tasks in just a few tens of bytes, here there is only one such answer, and it takes 115 bytes. So perhaps one could say it's even hard for computers?

tromp4y ago

That is not 115 bytes, but 115 wide (16-bit) characters, or 230 bytes.

xigoi4y ago

05AB1E has a custom codepage where all 256 characters are one byte.

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