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Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power (www.pv-magazine.com)

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instead of moving along the digits from highest to lowest, as in “Four hundreds and two tens and nine”, we do “Four hundred and nine and two tens”.

English is less consistent, going from nine-teen to twenty-one. German stays consistent with its lower two digits.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 8 points 5 months ago

From 11 to 19 is always kind of weird in many languages. In Italian you go from essentially saying "one-ten" "two-ten"..."six-ten" to "ten-seven" "ten-eight" "ten-nine". Then it goes in like in English. Why? No reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯