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Chinese numbers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To be fair, zero is a complicated number

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I lived in Korea for a while where they also do the ten thousand thing. I got used to it for numbers up to about ten million, but then would get quickly lost.

Since everybody was making a couple million won a month, knowing numbers that big was necessary.

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