[hyperpape]

Do they also call 1042 "Forty two and one thousand"?

[ahomescu1]

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".

[mschulze]

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".

[DavidSJ]

Also known as middle endian.

[mitchty]

Even if its weird, its nothing like French numerals.

[Joky]

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

[smcl]

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

[mitchty]

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.

[tallanvor]

Can't be worse than Dutch counting!