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German Numbers, why said backwards?

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Serpent
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12 June 2015 at 3:27pm | IP Logged 
Hindi numbers have to be learned up to 100 (ie you can't predict them reliably starting from 20 or so). There do seem to be some patterns though, so it's not entirely random.
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12 June 2015 at 6:01pm | IP Logged 
This related old thread is very informative, especially the posts by Prof. Arguelles and Chung: Why are numbers so hard?

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