Oneteen, twoteen

Twelve is on of the perfect numbers.

Three is devine perfection, seven is spiritual perfection, ten in ordinal perfection and twelve is governmental perfection. In scripture twelve is associated with Rule. the sun rules the day, just as the moon and the stars govern the night.

The Zodiac resides in a great circle which 360 degrees (=30 x 12)!

The Heavenly City of Revelation, has twelve gates w/the name of the twelve tribes of Israel on them. Twelve angels stand at the gates, the walls have twelve foundations…and on it goes!

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Sounds about right, word_spy007! Great job!

Marina

Hey! NO! Twelve is not one of the perfect numbers. Twelve is an abundant number. For a perfect number the sum of its proper factors is the number itself, but 1+2+3+4+6 is 16, not 12, thus twelve isn’t perfect.

6 and 28 are perfect numbers. 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14

It’s currently unknown whether any odd numbers are perfect.

I’m sort of confused. Why then isn’t there thireven or fourve, but only eleven and twelve?

I’ve always found it interesting from taking Latin in high school that counting in Latin has something similar to eleven and twelve, but on the other end. Eleven through seventeen are all along the same format, but eighteen and nineteen are a different format. They are in the format of two before twenty and one before twenty. Is there any reason for this opposite similarity? Are there other languages that done the same or similar things in that range of numbers?

Counting in Danish is really complicated.
From 0 up till 20 it’s quite similar to English, but from there upwards it gets … er … creative. :grin:
Oneandtwenty, twoandtwenty, etc and similarly up till 49 then:-
50=halfatwentyshortofthreetimestwenty
51=oneandhalfatwentyshortofthreetimestwenty
etc.
60=threetimestwenty
70=halfatwentyshortoffourtimestwenty
80=fourtimestwenty
90=halfatwentyshortoffivetimestwenty
100=fivetimestwenty

Interesting :smile:

I always love her chart lessons lol. Honestly all her videos are fascinating for me. But I like the hotforprofits girl as well so I’m just weird like that.

Have you ever seen this for numbers? Zeitgeist [Religion] The Greatest Story Ever Sold (1of 3) good job, Marina— :grin: great random lesson—maybe make a game out of it with that of the youtube machine :?: :cool: :oops:

Significance of the number 12:

You on a scale from 1 to 10. :)

French numbers between 70 and 99 are … creative as well:

70 – soixante-dix (sixty-ten)
71 – soixante-onze (sixty-eleven)
72 – soixante-douze (sixty-twelve)
…
79 – soixante-dix-neuf (sixty-nineteen)
80 – quatre-vingts (four-twenties)
81 – quatre-vingt-un (four-twenty-one)
82 – quatre-vingt-deux (four-twenty-two)
…
90 – quatre-vingt-dix (four-twenty-ten)
91 – quatre-vingt-onze (four-twenty-eleven)
92 – quatre-vingt-douze (four-twenty-twelve)
…
99 – quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (four-twenty-nineteen)

Marina is the hottest number…[numb] :razz:

Wow. Mramax’s description of the Latin way of counting sounds complicated enough, and then we have the French way as described by Logischabbaubar which is far more illogical, but nothing in comparison to Danish according to Bob.

On this point, I think I can safely say that Japanese is perfectly logical. You count one through ten, and then it is:
ten-one, ten-two, ten-three, etc. and following ten-nine comes
two-ten.
This is followed by
two-ten-one, two-ten-two, two-ten-three and so on. This pattern continues though nine-ten-nine, and then
hundred.
The hundreds follow the same pattern to thousand. Then after the number nine-thousand-nine-hundred-nine-ten-nine, the next number is (sorry, no English equivalent, but the unit is pronounced “man” and means 10000).
And on and on. No exceptions.

I like this lesson, as the #12 is my favorite number. It was nearly always the number on my jerseys.

Actually it would start with Firs(t) and secon(d) just like thirteen starts with thir(d) and fifteen starts with fift(h). ;)

good ol Firsteen and Seconteen. :)
It’s because of the base twelve counting system invented by Alexander P. Doodlenbottom. He didn’t like base 10 because it is more consistent and easier for people to learn. (That goes for any language affected like German where we have “Elf” and “Zwölf” instead of “Einzwen” and “Zweizehn”)

for example, it causes people to think adolescence begins right at 13 just because the word ends with ‘-teen’ when it actually starts at age *12*. Yes guys.. 12. Look it up on CDC gov! “Young Adolescence 12-14″ That is among many. I notice from working with kids that most of the changes appear at 12.

Well at least we dont have the counting problem in SPANISH (the “-teen” equivalent starts at 16. “once”, “doce”, “trece”, etc up to “diecisiete”..