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by skeeter2020 1508 days ago
>> and how to count to 169

This is weird; counting is a set of repeating patterns, so getting to 99 should take him to 999. Maybe he's memorized the numbers to 169, or he's really a 12-yr-old boy who (without understanding why) likes to say "69!"?

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Oh, he gets hooked up on numbers like that all the time. For a long while he thought the biggest number that existed was 54. I'll never know why.

I've got an explanation for 169 though. We're Spanish. 60 ("Sesenta") and 70 ("Setenta") are pronounced very similarly. He can handle it the first time, but when he reaches the first hundred he starts getting tired. There's a point around 169 where the 6 becomes a 7 and the 7 becomes a 6 again, and he loses track of the number he's in.

He'll get there eventually, in the meantime it is fun to watch him try :)

Maybe that's just as far as he got before he got bored.