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Re:Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of coun... by nkoren on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:42AM (#16649048)
I am not a native Hindi speaker by any means, and I certainly haven't done math in it. But my experience (in places like Delhi) is that people routinely use Hindi up to 20, then give up and switch to English.
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Re:Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of coun... by abhishek0318 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:53AM (#16649144)
This is only true for young urban middle class people.
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Re:Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of coun... by nkoren on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:47PM (#16652021)
Yeah, my sample is fairly biased in that direction. That and rickshaw wallahs who'll speak the language of their market I guess.
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