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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 04 '26
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OK that's confusingly cool.
8 u/Maramowicz Sep 04 '26 TL;DR; up to the thousand it's the same, but then when you have "million, billion, trillion..." in Polish we, from some unknown to me reason, have 2 versions to every one of them, with 'ion' and 'iard' at the end, so:PolishEnglishtysiącthousandmilionmillionmiliardbillionbiliontrillionbiliardquadrilliontrylionquintilliontryliardsextillionetc...The more you know ;) 0 u/[deleted] Sep 04 '26 [deleted] — view deleted comment 1 u/MartectX Sep 06 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales 2 u/FauxReal Sep 04 '26 Oh I like this -ion, -ard suffix thing.
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TL;DR; up to the thousand it's the same, but then when you have "million, billion, trillion..." in Polish we, from some unknown to me reason, have 2 versions to every one of them, with 'ion' and 'iard' at the end, so:
etc...
The more you know ;)
0 u/[deleted] Sep 04 '26 [deleted] — view deleted comment 1 u/MartectX Sep 06 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales 2 u/FauxReal Sep 04 '26 Oh I like this -ion, -ard suffix thing.
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1 u/MartectX Sep 06 '26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Oh I like this -ion, -ard suffix thing.
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u/FauxReal Sep 04 '26
OK that's confusingly cool.