I was amused by the vigesimal system in French until I started wondering about our system
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— Ok, what’s 20?
— twenty
— 20 is twenty, 30 is thirty, 40 is fourty
— No, forty
— What’s with forty? Why?
— I myself dunno, just “forty”
— Ok, next, 50 is fifty
— No, starting from five we add “dy” at the end, fifty
— Strange, but ok, 60 is sixty, 70 is seventy, 80 is eighty, 90 is ninety
— No, ninety
— What’s with? Why is there some sort of “hundred” in there?
— And hundred is 100
— Hold on, ninetY comes before a hundred? How is that even? 100 is a hundred, what’s 200?
— two hundred
— two transformed into two and “hundred” was added, well ok, this is Russian, three doesn’t turn into some sort of “three”? 300 is three hundred
— No, three hundred
— Damn you, 300 is three hundred, 400 is four hundred, 500 is five hundred
— No, five hundred
— Go to… forty!
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Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 