I Had A Strange Realization About Numbers Today....

UCDVet

Alright, I hope this makes sense....

0-9 are individual digits - (zero, one, two....nine)
Then we've got 10, 20, 30, 40... 90 (ten, twenty, thirty.... ninety)

If we want to say '33' we combine 'thirty' and 'three' to get 'thirty-three'

fifty-three
forty-three
thirty-three
twenty-three
TEN-three!

Wait - what? There is no ten-three!

I feel like someone really dropped the ball on number 11-19. I think it'd make a lot more sense to change 'ten' to 'tenty' and make it conform with the others.

11-tentyone
12-tentytwo
etc....

jaffacakesyum

Hahahahaha. I'm not gonna lie, OP. Usually when I read your posts I think you're a bit dim but you really make a valid point here.

kowloon

We have a ten-three in progress...

Where To

Add your age to the date you were born.
Multiply by three.
Divide by two.
Now subtract today's date.
Add the year you were born.
Look in the mirror.
You are sad.

Fr_Dougal

UCDVet wrote: »

I Had A Strange Realization About Numbers Today....

Then stop thinking like an American...

im invisible

The -teen's make sense,but if you really want to blow your mind , contemplate where did eleven and twelve come from...

Peregrine

I thought people realised this at 5 :eek:

So what are we calling our awkward decade? The teenies bar 11 and 12?

JustAddWater

I think the OP has had tenty pints too many

UCDVet

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I thought people realised this at 5 :eek:

So what are we calling our awkward decade? The teenies bar 11 and 12?

tenty would follow the convention held by 20-90. I think that would be the most logical choice.

UCDVet

im invisible wrote: »

The -teen's make sense,but if you really want to blow your mind , contemplate where did eleven and twelve come from...

I'm not sure I agree; yes 13-19 follow the same patter of 'x-teen' but no other numbers (> 0 and < 100) match it. If we said '28' and eight-twenty' I'd agree.

But as it is, I think the 'teens' are all an abomination.

UCDVet

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Then stop thinking like an American...

Hahaha - American and 'thinking' don't really belong in the same sentence

ahtfulal84

Tentyone bottles of beer on the wall, tentyone bottles of beer.
Take one down and pass it around, tenty bottles of beer on the wall.

UCDVet

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

Hahahahaha. I'm not gonna lie, OP. Usually when I read your posts I think you're a bit dim but you really make a valid point here.

I usually am a bit dim. No idea why you got an infraction for this. I think it's a very fair opinion to hold.

the groutch

would tenty-one not be 101?

Peregrine

the groutch wrote: »

would tenty-one not be 101?

He knows too much!

paulieeye

From a logical point of view op is spot on. In german they do it...cept for 11 and 12 too...what is it with 11 and 12?? Scumbag numbers

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_spell_the_numbers_from_1_to_20_in_German

dxhound2005

UCDVet wrote: »

tenty would follow the convention held by 20-90. I think that would be the most logical choice.

It wouldn't. You would be inventing a new word Tenty. You don't have to invent any new words to count from 21 to 99.

scrubber72

Multiply any number by 9 say 21. Answer is 189. Add each number together. 1+8+9=18. Add 1+8. Answer is 9. This works on any number multiplied by 9. Why?

UCDVet

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It wouldn't. You would be inventing a new word Tenty. You don't have to invent any new words to count from 21 to 99.

I'm arguing that 'ten' should not exist and it should be called 'tenty' (because 20,30,40, etc...) all end with 'ty'.

Then we'd have the same 'patterns' from all whole numbers > 9 and < 100.

im invisible

UCDVet wrote: »

tenty would follow the convention held by 20-90. I think that would be the most logical choice.

onety or unty would make more sense for 10, then unty one, unty two... Etc.

dxhound2005

UCDVet wrote: »

I'm arguing that 'ten' should not exist and it should be called 'tenty' (because 20,30,40, etc...) all end with 'ty'.

Then we'd have the same 'patterns' from all whole numbers > 9 and < 100.

It sounds too much like twenty and would cause confusion.

My name is URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I

3ndahalfof6

So you never heard of elevendeen, twelvedeen.

UCDVet

im invisible wrote: »

onety or unty would make more sense for 10, then unty one, unty two... Etc.

I'm pretty open to whatever we'd use for '10' so long as 11 is 'x'-one. Onetyone sounds good to me.

UCDVet

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It sounds too much like twenty and would cause confusion.

People don't have too much trouble distinguishing between ten and twenty, IMHO. But, fair enough, we can call it anything; but whatever we call '10' followed by 'one' should be 11.

At least, in my opinion.

// My opinion doesn't matter for much, but still....

dxhound2005

UCDVet wrote: »

People don't have too much trouble distinguishing between ten and twenty, IMHO. But, fair enough, we can call it anything; but whatever we call '10' followed by 'one' should be 11.

At least, in my opinion.

// My opinion doesn't matter for much, but still....

Air traffic controllers have to say nine as niner to avoid being misheard as five. Tenty and twenty would be even worse.

mf240

Its six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Davidius

-teen is apparently from Old English denoting '10 more than'. -ty is a group of ten so tenty is 100. Einty-three for 13, that's just what we need.

Queen-Mise

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

Hahahahaha. I'm not gonna lie, OP. Usually when I read your posts I think you're a bit dim but you really make a valid point here.

UCDVet wrote: »

I usually am a bit dim. No idea why you got an infraction for this. I think it's a very fair opinion to hold.

Dim wouldn't be the right word - lateral thinking would be more apt.*

The Abbot/Costello clip was brilliant. 13*7 is 28 - proven three different ways. This tenty and 28 business is a travesty.

*note thread :D

Scanlas The 2nd

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I thought people realised this at 5 :eek:

So what are we calling our awkward decade? The teenies bar 11 and 12?

It's simple, this decade is the tens, the previous decade was the zeros.

Grayson

scrubber72 wrote: »

Multiply any number by 9 say 21. Answer is 189. Add each number together. 1+8+9=18. Add 1+8. Answer is 9. This works on any number multiplied by 9. Why?

Because it's the square of three.

If you add up the digits of any number, if the final number is divisible by three so is the original number.

for example 121 is 1+2+1 = 4. 4 is not divisible by three so neither is 121.

99 (easy one) is 9+9 = 18 18/3 = 6 So 99 is divisible by 3.

There's rules for lots of different numbers
http://www.mathwarehouse.com/arithmetic/numbers/divisibility-rules-and-tests.php

If you want to know why this is the case, get yourself a book on number theory.

fryup

UCDVet wrote: »

Wait - what? There is no ten-three!

I feel like someone really dropped the ball on number 11-19. I think it'd make a lot more sense to change 'ten' to 'tenty' and make it conform with the others.

11-tentyone
12-tentytwo
etc....

it'll put an end to teenage years (maybe a good thing)

suicide_circus

kowloon wrote: »

We have a ten-three in progress...

sounds more like a four twenty if you ask me
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/25108774.jpg

Annasopra

So you want us to call the year twenty tenty two? or two thousand and tenty two?

Peregrine

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

It's simple, this decade is the tens, the previous decade was the zeros.

The previous decade was called the noughties

im invisible

Grayson wrote: »

There's rules for lots of different numbers
http://www.mathwarehouse.com/arithmetic/numbers/divisibility-rules-and-tests.php

If you want to know why this is the case, get yourself a book on number theory.

what about 7?

Scanlas The 2nd

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

The previous decade was called the noughties

Not by me it isn't. The zeros makes the most sense.

Annasopra

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Not by me it isn't. The zeros makes the most sense.

Everyone else called the noughties!

peasant

Think of the poor French ...their ninety nine is four twenty ten nine

Scanlas The 2nd

mango salsa wrote: »

Everyone else called the noughties!

Not me it's stupid.

1920-1929. The 20's
1930-1939. The 30's
1940-1949. The 40's
1950-1959. The 50's
1960-1969. The 60's
1970-1979. The 70's
1980-1989. The 80's
1990-1999. The 90's

Now I think the pattern there is obvious so it makes sense to call 2000-2009 the 00's and 2010-2019 the 10's.

Why would you call the decade the naughties. Naughtie is not a number. Even worse is the teensies for this decade. First 11 and 12 aren't teens and secondly teensie isn't a number. My solution is the simplistic and most logically consistent.

9959

Grayson wrote: »

Because it's the square of three.

If you add up the digits of any number, if the final number is divisible by three so is the original number.

for example 121 is 1+2+1 = 4. 4 is not divisible by three so neither is 121.

99 (easy one) is 9+9 = 18 18/3 = 6 So 99 is divisible by 3.

There's rules for lots of different numbers
http://www.mathwarehouse.com/arithmetic/numbers/divisibility-rules-and-tests.php

If you want to know why this is the case, get yourself a book on number theory.

Couldn't agree more with the above, well I suppose I could if I understood it, but it's certainly impressive.
So, 'what he said'!

Peregrine

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Not me it's stupid.

1920-1929. The 20's
1930-1939. The 30's
1940-1949. The 40's
1950-1959. The 50's
1960-1969. The 60's
1970-1979. The 70's
1980-1989. The 80's
1990-1999. The 90's

Now I think the pattern there is obvious so it makes sense to call 2000-2009 the 00's and 2010-2019 the 10's.

Why would you call the decade the naughties. Naughtie is not a number. Even worse is the teensies for this decade. First 11 and 12 aren't teens and secondly teensie isn't a number. My solution is the simplistic and most logically consistent.

Nought as in zero
01, 02, 03

Pace2008

mango salsa wrote: »

Everyone else called the noughties!

Speak for yourself.

Scanlas The 2nd

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Nought as in zero
01, 02, 03

Equally it would make sense to call 2000-2009 the noughts as well as zeros. My personal preference is the zeros. The noughties is an awful name for the decade.

Jimoslimos

Following on from this logical proposal then the prefixes for twenty (twen) and thirty (thir) also need to be changed;

20 = two-ty
30 = three-ty

Grayson

im invisible wrote: »

what about 7?

7 is the fecked up one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule#Divisibility_by_7

When I did it in maths class, we worked out mathematically how to do each one. And technically you could do it for any number. But once you get into double digits it can be a bit of a bollox.

Shryke

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

Herb Powell

UCDVet wrote: »

I usually am a bit dim. No idea why you got an infraction for this. I think it's a very fair opinion to hold.

IT'S PC GONE MAD!!!!!11!!!1!one

Scanlas The 2nd

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Following on from this logical proposal then the prefixes for twenty (twen) and thirty (thir) also need to be changed;

20 = two-ty
30 = three-ty

No

Jimoslimos

Scanlas The TWOTH wrote: »

No

Yes!

Furthermore numbers defining orders should also be standardised.

1st = one-th (1th)
2nd = two-th (2th)
3rd = three-th (3th)

:P

Voltex

Possibly the coolest of all numbers..so big that if you tried to visualise Grahams number your head would collapse into a black hole!!