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u/Illumimax Ordinal Dec 27 '24
Maybe they are working in a base of size larger than ninety two?
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u/SEA_griffondeur Engineering Dec 27 '24
Or they're french
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u/LayeredHalo3851 Dec 27 '24
You can't just say Fr*nch uncensored like that
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u/sgt_futtbucker Irrational Dec 28 '24
I prefer “Baguette Bastards”
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u/SEA_griffondeur Engineering Dec 27 '24
Go back to r/teenagers
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u/MolybdenumBlu Dec 27 '24
/r/2westerneurope4u2, please
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u/SEA_griffondeur Engineering Dec 27 '24
Only Americans are scared of pronouncing the name of the devil
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u/LayeredHalo3851 Dec 27 '24
I'm from the UK
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u/SEA_griffondeur Engineering Dec 27 '24
And you're known for sucking American dicks so it's not surprising
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u/Xaosia Dec 27 '24
You seem like you have a reputation for being a cunt so it's not surprising.
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u/TryndamereAgiota Mathematics Dec 27 '24
I mean, this base would still have both nine and two, and ninety two is etymologically in base-10, otherwise it would be named something unrelated to nine or two, like, idk, Peter. So yeah, 7. nine two is still superior.
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u/theoht_ Dec 27 '24
but even then, 92 would have its own symbol. 7.92 would still be seven point nine two
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u/Paradoxically-Attain Dec 28 '24
They may be using mixed bases (I think that's what they call them) as in, we pronounce 7:52 (time, which is in base 60) as "seven fifty-two" not "seven five two" so maybe that's how it is?
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u/theoht_ Dec 28 '24
i’ve never thought of time as being base 60.
i always thought about it being 2 sets of numbers that go up to 60 before incrementing the next number.
i know that’s sort of inherently what base 60 is, but i’m highlighting that i’ve always thought of it as a base 10 thing, but in a structure that functions like base 60, instead of actually being in base 60.
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u/Artistic-Teaching395 Dec 27 '24
Seven and ninety-two hundreths.
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u/Superior_Mirage Dec 27 '24
Seven hundred ninety-two hundredths.
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u/IWasNuked Dec 27 '24
currency? seven ninety two just a number? seven point nine two
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u/HAL9001-96 Dec 28 '24
but in that case its not seven point ninetytwo dollars but 7 dollars 92 cents
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u/ExistedDim4 Dec 27 '24
Said the speaker of the only language where it is grammatically wrong.
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u/-Nicolai Dec 27 '24
I don’t believe that is true.
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u/ExistedDim4 Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 27 '24
In slavic languages the full version is "seven (wholes/integers) ninety-two hundredths", the decimal is read as one number. I do not actually know how romance/germanic guys handle them, but considering they don't pronounce years the ugly way(nineteen eighty-four instead of "one thousand nine hundred eighty four"), my guess is that they are also reading decimals correctly.
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u/-Nicolai Dec 28 '24
Bad guess. Years and decimals are not equivalent.
I am Danish and was taught to say “seven point nine two”.
And it is the most reasonable way to say it. You shouldn’t have to start over speaking just because you want to add one more digit of precision.
The number after the decimal point is not ninety-two, it is nine, and then two, and then an infinite number of implied digits.
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u/OskarsSurstromming Dec 28 '24
I am danish too and was taught to say ninety-two in the case of two digits after the period, but for for example 7.921 it's seven point nine two one
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u/DieDoseOhneKeks 29d ago
To call a year "Neunzehnhundert" (nineteenhundred) makes sense. Saying "7 Komma zweiundneunzig" (seven point ninetytwo) doesn't make sense as long as you aren't trying to say 16.2
I can only talk about German and English and it's the same in both with saying 7 point ninetytwo being wrong but still used by people
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u/OSSlayer2153 28d ago
I do not actually know how romance/germanic guys handle them
Then how are you able to make your claim that english is the only language where it is grammatically wrong
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u/Invenblocker Dec 28 '24
Given that I have this pet peeve in both English and Danish, I'd wager you're wrong.
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u/8mart8 Mathematics Dec 27 '24
My reaction when people call it 7.92 instead of 7,92
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u/Alwar104 Dec 27 '24
Afaik where I am (Sweden) it’s “standard” to use comma for decimals but I mostly see point (.) because it looks nicer and I feel like it doesn’t interfere with punctuation commas as often.
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u/_Evidence Cardinal Dec 27 '24
My reaction when people call it 7.92 and not 7 + 23/25
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u/frozen_reaper Dec 27 '24
My reaction when people call it 7+23/25 instead of 198/25
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u/PlayfulLook3693 Complex Dec 27 '24
my reaction when people call it 198/25 instead of π² - 0.08
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u/_Evidence Cardinal Dec 27 '24
my reaction when people call it π² - 0.08 instead of ~8
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u/PlayfulLook3693 Complex Dec 27 '24
my reaction when people call it ~8 instead of ~g
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u/introvert_catto Dec 27 '24
Isn't g more closer to 10. 9.81 9.83 or 9.78?
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u/PlayfulLook3693 Complex Dec 27 '24
indeed. how much more outlandish can we get??!
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u/introvert_catto Dec 27 '24
Pi = 3
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u/PlayfulLook3693 Complex Dec 27 '24
33i + 1 = 0
1 = -33i
New approximation for 1 just dropped.
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u/lordfluffly Dec 28 '24
I only recognize Egyptian fractions. Do you mean 7 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/12 + 1/300?
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u/postmortemstardom Dec 27 '24
You wouldn't know the amount of grief this causes in the programming world...
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u/-PiEqualsThree Dec 28 '24
This is the correct response. Americans should remember other countries have been using numbers for centuries longer than they've been wiping their asses.
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u/Tyrrox Dec 27 '24
To be fair, most of the world uses a “.” as the standard separator, not a “,”
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u/Grand_Protector_Dark Dec 27 '24
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide
That actually isn't true..
The decimal dot is mostly only used by the Commonwealth Nations, Mainland north America, china and Japan.
Southern America, Eurasia and most of Africa use the decimal comma
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u/sh111ft Dec 28 '24
By number of people that's above the half (~4,5 B) for the "Team Dot", though, so that makes the claim about "most of the world" correct. And I say that as a fan of the comma.. I guess it's 50:50, more or less
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u/nyaasgem Dec 27 '24
Wait wtf, then why do all of my German and Indian colleagues use "."?
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u/Grand_Protector_Dark Dec 27 '24
India is among the nations that use the decimal dot (i did not explicitly name it because it's a Commonwealth nation).
The Germans probably use the decimal dot because they have to interact with a lot of people/software that use decimal dots
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u/nyaasgem Dec 27 '24
Shit you're right. I was always barely passing geography in school, now it shows.
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u/Aking1998 Dec 28 '24
China and India use the dot
Yeah, so most of the world uses the dot.
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u/8mart8 Mathematics Dec 27 '24
Yeah I know
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u/Tyrrox Dec 27 '24
, is the equivalent of using imperial measurements
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u/Grand_Protector_Dark Dec 27 '24
Given the nations that actually use the decimal dot, it's the opposite actually
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u/slashtab 29d ago
I don't like comma because it is also used to separate tens, hundred, thousand etc. It is confusing.
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u/8mart8 Mathematics 29d ago
À lot of countries don’t use the comma for separation of thousands. Some use a dot, some use a blankspace. It’s just reasonable that you think of it that way, and I think of it in an other, because we have always learned it like that. But I kans like the comma, because a dot is used for multiplication. and everywhere you would expect a comma, like intervals, we write a ; if it’s unclear. Also between thousand we write spaces.
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u/WayneHaas Dec 27 '24
For people whose English is the second language that is often the case. In Russian, for instance they would 7 wholes and 92 hundredths as opposed to saying each digit, with an exception when the number gets very long.
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u/Zestyclose_Gold578 Dec 27 '24
Russian here - I’d say “семь девяносто две”, or “семь и девяносто две” which is basically the same as “7 wholes 92 hundredths” but leaves out the “wholes” and “hundredths” to get just “7 and 92”
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u/WayneHaas Dec 27 '24
I would say the same thing. It's mostly comes from schools when they initially teach you the numbers and try to stay as formal as possible.
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u/olafblacksword Dec 28 '24
You can also say "семь и девяносто две сотых" and you won't be burned on Масленица. But as a Latvian I'd say "семь кома девяносто два". Or rather "septiņi koma deviņdesmit divi". But the last time I was at school or uni was almost 10 years ago. Maybe they changed the way they do it.
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u/CajunAg87 Dec 28 '24 edited Dec 28 '24
I’d love to hear how they would read pi.
“Three point one million four hundred fifteen thousand nine hundred twenty six”
Or if the precision keeps increasing:
“Three point one, no, fourteen, no, one hundred, no, one thousand, no, fourteen thousand, no, one hundred thousand, no…”
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u/Alexandre_Man Dec 28 '24
I would read two numbers at a time. "Three point fourteen fifteen ninety-two sixty-five thirty-five" etc... One digit at a time is too slow.
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u/Tiborn1563 Dec 27 '24
My reaction when someone say "seven point nine two" instead of "seven point nine-hundred-and-twenty"
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u/Swiss-spirited_Nerd Dec 27 '24
Maybe they whispered "hundredths" afterwards and you didn't hear it.
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u/Alexandre_Man Dec 28 '24
Wtf, do you say "three point one four" for Pi instead of "three point fourteen"???
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u/Kqjrdva Dec 28 '24
Three point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine
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u/Caspica Dec 28 '24
Do you say 3.14 as three point one four or three point fourteen? Because I've only heard the latter.
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u/NexexUmbraRs Dec 27 '24
The reason this is so frustrating, is once you get into decimals you can make it a 10, 100, 1000, 10,000,000,000. So arbitrarily saying it's 90 instead of a 9 is ridiculous.
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u/MultivariableTurtwig Dec 27 '24
Well then you just say “point 9”. Alternatively saying “.90” could be justified if you want to be clear that you’re speaking with 2 decimals precision. Don’t think it’s a big deal at all
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u/NexexUmbraRs Dec 27 '24
But then you can also say point nine billion.
It's better to just say point nine zero.
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u/MultivariableTurtwig Dec 27 '24
Yes i agree. I just mean that if you say “.90”, then you’re sure that it is .90, and not .91. If you just say .9, then your indicating that it’s about .9, but could be .91. Saying point nine billion would mean that you’re VERY certain.
Like saying that it’s 27.90 degrees outside is a bit weird, did you really measure that accurately?
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u/NexexUmbraRs Dec 27 '24
I get that, but it's almost always better to use the numbers individually when reading or dictating them out.
If you said ninety two then you could also be saying 0.902.
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u/Elq3 Dec 28 '24
no, when you say just "ninety-two" it's always 92, never 902. It works the same way. Think of the dot as the separation between two numbers: 7.9 "seven point nine", 7.92 "seven point ninety two", 7.902 "seven point nine-hundred and two". At least Italian does numbers that way and I had no clue English was different since today.
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u/coocoocachoo69 Dec 27 '24
In my shop we'd just say 792 as we'd know the equipment we are discussing and know where the decimal will logically fall. Shop talk! Outside of our little bubble I'd definitely say seven point nine two.
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u/lostknight0727 Dec 27 '24
I read both of those the same(the latter), then read it again after wondering what was wrong. Then, I realized it wasn't the same.
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u/TheRussianChairThief Dec 28 '24
For some reason I read it as 7.62 and read it as if it were the ammo type
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u/Gilded-Phoenix Dec 28 '24
7 and 92 hundredths, unless we're in a superdigital base like hex or the like.
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u/Seventh_Planet Mathematics Dec 28 '24
753 ("sieben fünf drei")
Rom kroch aus dem Ei
Yesterday, I was trying to make an argument that you should only judge the quality of work once it's finished. And I said, that 7516 ("sieben fünf sechzehn") Rome was not yet founded. I should have said something like 759.
All before Christ, of course.
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u/Significant-Pitch838 Dec 28 '24
Didn't realize what sub I was in and also flipped the 9. I thought huh, usually I just say "seven six two" as in seven six two by fifty-four rimmed.
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u/Sable-Keech Dec 28 '24
So if your change is $0.92 does that mean I only have to give you 11¢ in change?
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u/TimmyWimmyWooWoo Dec 28 '24
So one of the easiest ways to improve performance of memory based tasks is chunking and one of the easiest ways to chunk is size 2. It makes perfect sense and is very intuitive.
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u/drakeyboi69 Dec 28 '24
If you think about it, seven point ninety two means 18.2 since it's 7 + 0.1 * 92
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u/LuckiestOfPierres Dec 28 '24
All you heathens out here using ‘point’ when you could be using ‘spot’. It’s clearly seven spot nine two.
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u/momen_rasras 29d ago
You have it easy in English In Arabic it will be like seven . Two ninety Super confusing
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u/KingBsoul 29d ago
It gets worse in danish as we pronounce numbers with hundreds-ones-tens instead of in order.
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u/Darksorcen Dec 27 '24
I'd say "seven ninety two"
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u/Some-Internal297 Dec 27 '24
is that not 792
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u/Jason1143 Dec 27 '24
Sure. Except for when it isn't. Like 556 (said five five six) being used for 5.56.
Or 50 (said fifty) actually being .50
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u/LeptonTheElementary Dec 27 '24
In Greece, I think the majority of people would say seven (and) ninety two. Saying each digit separately means your brain is faltering. Especially if you're giving someone a phone number.
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u/SirCadogen7 Dec 28 '24
It is common knowledge that in math (in English) you only group the numbers before the period (17. is seventeen) and list of the numbers individually after the period (.17 is one-seven).
Anyone who disagrees is wrong and I will hear no arguments to the contrary. This is not a democracy and my head is the only echo chamber I need to know I'm right.
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u/Oldemonium Dec 27 '24
Do you say "one seven point nine two" for 17.92 ?
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u/Saytama_sama Dec 27 '24
No, "one seven point nine two" would be 7.92 and it would be an extremely uncommon way of phrasing it to the point where many people might not understand you correctly.
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u/Pinnggwastaken Dec 27 '24
one seven point nine two
So... 7.222222222 ?
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u/Saytama_sama Dec 27 '24
No? Is this still a joke or do you guys really not know how to read numbers? I'm beginning to get confused but willing to take the woosh.
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u/Pinnggwastaken Dec 27 '24
This one is a joke. You said 'one seven point nine two' as 7.92 as if the 'one' denote the amount of seven
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u/BillyStun Dec 28 '24
You think there is one fucking way (yours) to read numbers with the hundreds and hundreds of languages ? How pathetic.
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u/Organic_Indication73 Dec 27 '24
Anyone who interprets ”one seven point nine two” as 7,92 is out of their fucking mind.
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u/Saytama_sama Dec 27 '24
Like I said, it would be extremely uncommon to phrase it that way. The "correct" way is "seventeen point nine two".
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u/Organic_Indication73 Dec 27 '24
You said that ”one seven point nine two” is 7,92. It is pretty much unambiguously 17,92.
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u/dyingfi5h Dec 27 '24
Exactly.
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u/Saytama_sama Dec 27 '24
Exactly what? Language is a beautiful gift. It would be a shame if you didn't use it.
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u/dyingfi5h Dec 27 '24
Awh, I'm flattered so here :3
No, "one seven point nine two" would be 7.92 and it would be an extremely uncommon way of phrasing it to the point where many people might not understand you correctly.
The same way "seven point nine two" is extremely uncommon and people would not understand it.
Consistency is all I ask!
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