r/mildlyinteresting • u/Expensive_Ad6082 • 2d ago

My board results displays marks in words uniquely

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u/burner94_ 2d ago

This was done in Italy in the old days when everything was on paper and computers were just a dream. It's an anticheat.

e.g.:

A 6 can be easily over-traced to become an 8. Not so much when you write "SIX" next to it.

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u/aoi4eg 2d ago

Yep. It's like Chinese, for example, had simple numbers 一 二 三 (1, 2, 3) but on the important documents it's gonna be written as 壹 贰 叁 to ensure it can't be changed with a few strokes.

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u/Konstanteen 2d ago

English legal documents regularly write it out as well. So a settlement will be written as “for the consideration of $100.00 (One Hundred Dollars and Zero Cents)”

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 2d ago

And checks in general. You write down the number in both word and numeral, and then most people will demarcate the end of the number with a line for the letter version and by writing the cents value in superscript.

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u/Konstanteen 2d ago

That is a much better and more relatable example. I’m at an age of only having written like 20 checks ever for apartment deposits or whatever, and I’ve more recently worked for years with insurance settlements. I guess that’s why my mind went to settlements instead of checks.

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u/windowtosh 2d ago

One of my yoga teachers only takes cash or checks, and I never have cash. I think 90% of all the checks I've ever written in my entire life are for yoga lmao.

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u/Sceptix 2d ago

IS THAT WHY THEY DO THAT?? OMG

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u/GraXXoR 2d ago

In Japan we use similar kanji for bank notes and documentation.

一、ニ、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十

Become

壱、弐、参、肆、伍、陸、漆、捌、玖、拾

Much harder to change by overwriting a couple of strokes.

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u/RPIBruin 2d ago

Oh man I'm just getting good at the first set in duo. Can't wait for the second set.

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u/LordMewza 2d ago

Any chance "3" is written like this: 叁?

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u/GraXXoR 1d ago edited 1d ago

In Japanese it’s slightly different to Chinese. It’s 参 : the bottom three strokes are drawn from right to left and curve down, like 3 miniature ノcharacters to make 彡whereas in the original Chinese character numeral 3 the bottom three strokes are written horizontally and from left to right to make 三 which is itself the basic 3.

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u/whatsshecalled_ 1d ago

In Chinese both characters are used actually! 參/参 cān is used as a regular character meaning "to participate", it's only the anti-fraud number 叁 sān where the lines become straight like 三

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u/GraXXoR 23h ago

Yes. InJapanese, though the same character 参 is used as both participate and the so called 大字 for 3.

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u/SakusaKiyoomi1 2d ago

Its like that it in the danish 7 point grading system.

There are grades such as 00, 02 and -3. So people cant change them to the top grades 10, 12 and 13 (though 13 isnt used anymore)

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u/Kaiisim 2d ago

THAT'S A COOL FACT!!!

You should post a til!

Or someone else will

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u/ProgramTheWorld 2d ago

The same thing is done in many languages.

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u/jadedflames 2d ago

Yeah but weebs on the internet like Japan more.

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u/aoi4eg 1d ago

Yep. My native language is Russian and we simply write with letters e.g. 1976 is gonna be одна тысяча девятьсот семьдесят шесть 😂 takes quite a lot of space to write but insures it can't be simply tampered with

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u/MarkV43 2d ago

why don't you do it?

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u/baka36 2d ago

Gives me a new idea for something therapeutic: write repeated lines of all of these characters (better if you know more languages).

Will have practical uses, while it allows us to practice our focus in writing complicated things (which itself is an art form).

Is there a specific term for writing simple numbers in complicated ways, to ensure no foul play? Thought of looking it up to take a look at how different languages do it.

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u/Ju-Yuan 1d ago

I think it appears in one piece as well for Baroque organisation's Mr 1

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u/vostok0401 2d ago

I'm a pharmacist and doctors do the same for narcotics, so patients can't add a zero for example or change the numbers that's to be dispensed

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u/Defiant-Caramel1309 2d ago

Your loss, you could have made a big sale of 4200 oxycodones today. I will take my prescription elsewhere!

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u/Seigmoraig 2d ago

Ok but why not write what the actual number, I get 96 can be forged like that but they could have written Ninty Six instead of Nine Six like a preschooler that hasn't learned to count past 10 would

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u/MozeeToby 2d ago

Because some programmer was lazy. Splitting the digits and doing a simple case statement to get one of ten values is trivial and easily expandable if more digits need to be supported elsewhere on the report.

Outputting the text of a 0-100 is, well it's not hard but it is a quite a bit more complicated than just outputting the digits. Of course, in modern programming languages it's trivial.

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u/evolpert 2d ago

Because what programmers have is ample time to do everything the proper way without a project manager creating 15 more jira tickets for tasks that needs to be done tomorrow

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u/penguinpenguins 2d ago

Yup, "minimum viable product". Text formatting is a "nice-to-have" stretch goal logged as a Change Request that we'll be able to get to in the year two zero two eight.

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u/IBJON 2d ago

It was probably just easier to code. Rather than having to map 101 numbers to their respective spelled out names, they only have to do 10. 

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u/burner94_ 2d ago

Haha true. In Italy grades are /10 so that doesn't really apply xD

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u/pianodude7 1d ago

"Ninty" who's the preschooler?

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u/pokipu 2d ago

anything can be made into an "8" , even my dinner becomes ate

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u/burner94_ 2d ago

Hah! xD

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u/Lukks22 2d ago

And nowadays since 6 is "SEI" they write "SEX" as "SEI" can be easily rewritten as "SETTE" Which is 7

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u/burner94_ 2d ago

They always did, I've seen a 1970s pagella (that was mom's) and SEX for SEI was already a thing haha

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u/Treczoks 2d ago

But convincingly turning a "6" into a "7" would be the difficult part then, anyway.

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u/Treczoks 2d ago

Just imagine how that must have been common with Roman numerals. Turning a "I" into a "V" or "X" on a handwritten note could make quite difference.

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u/AuburnElvis 2d ago

"That says 'SEX' Yes. I have a degree in sex."

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u/blonderaider21 2d ago

Interesting! Thanks for sharing that tidbit

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u/LordofSofa 2d ago

If ninety was a possibility you could take a score of nine and just add -ty at the end. You can't do that for zero nine.

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u/Vulpes_macrotis 2d ago

Sure, but why none NINETY ONE, NINETY NINE and so on. It exist everywhere on documents, but my country write the numbers down correctly.

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u/JohnStern42 ​ 2d ago

Makes sense, same reason you write out both the number and the words for the number on a cheque: to make it harder for someone to modify

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u/Iustis 2d ago

Except you write "ninety nine" not "nine nine"

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u/JohnStern42 ​ 2d ago

Sure, but in this case they just write out the digits, serves the same purpose, no?

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u/Vulpes_macrotis 2d ago

But that's dumb. Are we having language for fun or for some actual purpose. 99 is ninety nine, not nine nine. It doesn't serve the same purpose. One is correct, other is not.

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u/JohnStern42 ​ 2d ago

It serves the purpose of making it difficult to change the grade, not the purpose of teaching the English language

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u/TheGreatBenjie 2d ago

Pretty sure either work for the purpose it's accomplishing dude quit being a pedant.

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u/hellohennessy 2d ago

Computer wise, you are wrong. In one, you would have to store and entire dictionary of words and extra code to make it grammatically correct.

In this case, a dictionary with 10 key value pair is enough and it takes 2 lines of code to do.

So you sir are wrong.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 2d ago

Here are some tips to improve your English, friend. You want to use the emphatic tense instead of the progressive tense in your second sentence. Say "do we have..." instead of "are we having...". Put a question mark after questions. Finally, "ninety-nine" has a hyphen.

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u/kokokolia-rus 2d ago

And how does that contradict with what he said? Which is, I guess, the whole point of the post. Also the last statement from you only contributed to his point.

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u/SquidsInABlanket 2d ago

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u/GoodTato ​ 2d ago

Clicked this post hoping this'd be top comment.

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u/2Brothers_TheMovie 2d ago

I was scrolling passed this when I saw the nine nine and had to come to the comments

Nine Nine!

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u/krigsgaldrr 2d ago

LOL I did the same. I was like "there better be a NINE NINE! in these comments."

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u/Tudar87 2d ago

Only reason I opened the comments lmao

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u/ShylokVakarian ​ 2d ago

NINE NIIIIIIIINE!

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u/trueum26 2d ago

Thank you was looking for this.

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u/Cakeordeathimeancak3 2d ago

Came here for this!

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u/MightyPandaa 2d ago

One two two! I sound like a damn choo choo train

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u/thfooddude 1d ago

Huuu Noine Nooiiiiiine!

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u/cactuscoleslaw 2d ago

This dude just wanted to brag about his grades (good job)

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 1d ago

If I wanted to flex I would've shared the subjects also, but agree that it might seem like that.

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u/wes00mertes ​ 2d ago

Agreed! Good job OP. Some solid grades. 

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u/After_Stretch_2215 2d ago

Love this. Living in germany and you say 1-9 before 10-90 (82 = said as "two and eighty") and even though i'm amazing at maths i still fuck the order up so most of the times when i'm talking about numbers i do it just like that.

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u/JohnStern42 ​ 2d ago

Ya, saying something like 298 is said: two hundred eight and ninety. And let’s just ignore that million means billion…

Still, the French make it fun too. In French it would be: two hundred four twenties eighteen.

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u/Chib 2d ago

Living in the Netherlands, and here it's the same. I teach statistics in Dutch as a non-native speaker, so occasionally it gets weird at the board when I have to concentrate just a little too hard on writing out whatever the students called out.

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u/Her_Lovely_Tentacles 1d ago

million does not mean billion, it just uses a different scale, which gets even more confusing the higher you go.

Number  English         German
10^6    1 million       1 Million
10^9    1 billion       1 Milliard
10^12   1 trillion      1 Billion
10^15   1 quadrillion   1 Billiarde
10^16   1 quintillion   1 Trillion

edit: also, this subreddit really does not like the table format...

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago

Damn Germans be crazy☠️/s

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago edited 2d ago

Note -This is not a school result, it's the result of a national test taken by Indian school board, and it matters a lot if you want to go abroad/for scholarship during admission in schools for further education. In India it's not typical to type numbers in words in this manner(eg nine something instead of ninety something), that's why I thought it's mildly interesting.

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u/Super382946 2d ago

congrats on the result. outta curiosity, which board?

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago

Thank you :) ICSE

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u/Cybersorcerer1 2d ago

Didn't get enough hundreds, time to get disowned

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago

My parents were literally disappointed by this result. Indian parents are brutal.

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u/BeginningFrosting459 2d ago

There are two types of people in this world...don't be like them...be the third type

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u/Specialist_Plan_9350 1d ago

SEA parents are a different breed. I came home and got screamed at because I got salutatorian and not val lmao

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 1d ago

Well I had exact same situation with this result, I got 2nd in entire school, they fully expected 1st.

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u/eugene20 2d ago

It's not typical to write numbers that way anywhere unless doing it to prevent it being altered later.

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u/prashnts 2d ago

Hmm, my 12th grade CBSE marksheets had it in words too. But it was in 2013. Congrats on great grades!

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago

Thank you for your kind words sir/ma'am!

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u/TheGeneral_Specific 2d ago

There’s nothing wrong with your title, OP, but I swear I had to read it like 5 times to parse it

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u/Dramatic_Switch257 2d ago

icse board

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago

Good spot bro!

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u/FKbuki 2d ago

So it's harder to forge/change

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u/C_Beeftank 2d ago

Best Jake Peralta voice: Nine-Nine

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u/cutofmyjib 2d ago

Reminds me of how they announce scores during Olympic figure skating competitions

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u/egnappah 2d ago

Show off.

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u/Hebshesh 2d ago

Nine one???? Emotional damage.

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u/bcrabill 2d ago

Congratulations on your results

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u/Rance_Mulliniks 2d ago

Humble brag

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u/ExpensiveSeesaw195 2d ago

Almost too mild

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u/psubs07 2d ago

Nine-Nine!

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u/AndToOurOwnWay 2d ago

Oh I am really sure this is the work of a smart(lazy) programmer, it's really easy and lightweight to implement it like this from my experience instead

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago

True, I am a intermediate programmer and just realised it now (otherwise you would need extra conditions I think).

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u/mrfingspanky 2d ago

I bet none of those grades are for Grammer.

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's mobile. Autocorrect. I got 93 in grammar. (My mobile autocorrected result to results and I didn't notice lmao)

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u/Nebula_OG 2d ago

Not trying to be a smartass, but why is this interesting?

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u/Nebula_OG 2d ago

Well I watch Brooklyn 99, where it’s pronounced as “nine nine”, and written that way in the subtitles, so somewhat often. Also every time I write a rent check I have to spell out the numbers.

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u/SitOnMeGothGirlsPls 2d ago

Nine Three. Nine is divisible by three.

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u/lilywafiq 2d ago

I wish there was a gif for this 😂

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u/Nathulalji 2d ago

In india its like this

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u/grand305 2d ago

You get a grade, and more reading, to help your brain learn, and read more. 🧠

I wish I had this in elementary school it would help me with spelling a whole lot as well. :)

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 2d ago

It's for like crafts lmao But we did read a ton in English ngl

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u/AceMcClean 2d ago

Grade A Eh

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u/dookie-monsta 2d ago

I read “beard results”, I thought this was for some beard competition

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u/Sagaincolours 2d ago

In Denmark we have grades from 0 to 12. The lowest ones get a 0 in front so you can't change them, from e.g. 2 to 12.

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u/Crazy_Excitement3772 2d ago

I also have the same thing in my 10th Board exam of ICSE (8 years back). They still haven't changed the classic green curve background!

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u/nithix8 2d ago

Why write more code when less code do work?

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u/General_Froggers 2d ago

ICSE ptsd☹️

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u/Wormser1969 2d ago

I assume this wasn’t an English exam

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u/Expensive_Ad6082 1d ago edited 1d ago

2 English exams were there out of 10 subjects(grammar in title is incorrect as it autocorrected result to results). 2 English exams were averaged to get overall score(eg I got 93 in English 1, 96 in English 2 so overall English score became (93+96)/2=94.5=95)

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u/stickers34tb 2d ago

In Germany it say Nein

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u/tanafras 2d ago

A EH

All fixed friend.

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u/mrfingspanky 2d ago

Yes, yes that Grammer was perfect... You totally didn't reply with incomplete sentences and missing punctuation.

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u/CrazyHuntr 2d ago

What'd you get wrong?

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u/bud_boi 2d ago

G R E Y 🗣️🗣️5 TUH THUH NINEEEEEE 💀

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u/EtrnL_Frost 2d ago

Is 100 written as Ten Zero? Or One Zero Zero?

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u/bluemesa7 1d ago

One Hundred

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u/Cashh_N 2d ago

w grades

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u/Des014te 1d ago

Damn, nice ICSE results dude

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u/LJ_the_Saint 1d ago

Weird flex but ok

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u/reidzen 2d ago

NINE NINE!

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u/yunohavenameiwant 2d ago

“NINE NINE”

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u/Affectionate_Fox_383 2d ago

The numbers are not enough? Are modern students that illiterate??

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u/davidob1 2d ago

The 9 in 95 is not 9 it's 9x10 usually written ninety!!