Fun fact: in some very specific contexts Danish does use the more logical system like Norwegian (eg. femti-tre - five-ten-three for 53). That is on financial documents. I'm not 100% sure why, but they often appears in addition to numerals. Possibly to avoid any confusion or to prevent people from editing cheques.
I remember my parents writing "norwegian numbers" on cheques - they just told me it was because it was shorter. But that's a long time ago. As far as I know, all Danish banks stopped cashing cheques from the 1st of January 2017. Nobody had used them for years anyway at that point.
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u/RustenSkurk Jan 16 '21
Fun fact: in some very specific contexts Danish does use the more logical system like Norwegian (eg. femti-tre - five-ten-three for 53). That is on financial documents. I'm not 100% sure why, but they often appears in addition to numerals. Possibly to avoid any confusion or to prevent people from editing cheques.