Possibly the best take on “imaginary numbers” in history.
Also, Eleventeen itself is a nice reference to Old English, I think my first experience with such a number was Bilbo Baggins’ Eleventy-First birthday.
Similarly, in some non-English languages, saying the equivalent of thirty-twelve instead of forty-two is how it works.
“four times twenty and seventeen” in French is the funniest I saw it get.
Dutch is worse. Just like their language in general.
Further aren’t there a handful of cultures that work on something other than base 10 like Sumerians using base 60?
Yep, although I can’t speak about the current ones (if any).
Separately, I wonder if the thirty-twelve is also an early reference to Hitchhiker’s?
Hobbes truly is the perfect being.
That’s something only a tiger would say. Are you a tiger?
After going through engineering I unironically have more difficulty with simple sums than calculus, I need to use a calculator for the former
Fuck, I thought that was just me. The higher I got into math, the more likely I was to make simple mistakes over big mistakes. Like fuck me, it’s so frustrating when you’re in super complex equation and you do some grade school shit like forgetting to carry a 1 or something.
