Language: In SCANDINAVIAN languages numbers are written "backward…

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Did you know? In SCANDINAVIAN languages numbers are written "backwards" compared to English. "Four-and-twenty" instead of "twenty-four". English also had this until ~1700, but was modernised. German preserved it: "vierundzwanzig". Dutch too: "vierentwintig". It makes early mathematical calculations extra hard.

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In SCANDINAVIAN languages numbers are written "backwards" compared to English. "Four-and-twenty" instead of "twenty-four". English also had this until ~1700, but was modernised. German preserved it: "vierundzwanzig". Dutch too: "vierentwintig". It makes early mathematical calculations extra hard.

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