Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans

Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by ahomescu1 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:04PM (#9729746)

After looking up some German for beginners (German speakers, feel free to correct me), I found out that 1042 is read like "one thousand two and forty".

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Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by mschulze on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:18PM (#9729782)

German speaker here, that's correct. When the number is between 1000-1999 the "one" in "one thousand" is sometimes omitted, so "thousand two and forty".

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Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by DavidSJ on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:41PM (#9729827)

Also known as middle endian.

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Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by mitchty on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @12:37AM (#9730090)

Even if its weird, its nothing like French numerals.

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Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by Joky on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @01:49AM (#9730241)

Aren't the only weirdness in French 70, 80 and 90? That's nothing compared to German :)

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Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by smcl on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @04:14AM (#9730549)

Georgian has a fun number system too - numbers between 20-90 are expressed as a multiple of 20 + a number between 1 and 19: http://blog.conjugate.cz/georgian-is-fun

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Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by mitchty on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:46AM (#9736886)

Its weird its not consistent! :D

The german thing is just weird until you get used to it, with french I constantly go, wait, crap this is over 70, whats the deal again. I blame the wine consumption.

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Re:Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans by tallanvor on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @03:53AM (#9730499)

Can't be worse than Dutch counting!

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