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Re:Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong by cperciva on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:37AM (#45938088)
"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".
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Re:Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong by card_zero on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:40AM (#45938619)
Good grief, it gets worse. It's half third [ordinal] times twenty, ½ #3 × 20.
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Re:Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong by Waterluvian on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:45AM (#45938134)
That is so cursed.

I love it!

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Re:Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong by rkomorn on Saturday November 15, 2025 @12:59PM (#45939237)
But the history of why we stuck to four-twenties sort of makes it worse.

We were allegedly headed to sanity but l'Academie was like "actually let's stick to soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix".

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