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Yeah, and it’s wrong.
Nioghalvfems is 9 + 1/2 * 5 * 20!
NOT that silly 9+(4+1/2)*20.

What do they take us for? Calculators?

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9 + 1/2 * 5 * 20

9 + 2.5 * 20

9 + 50

59?

How does nioghalvfems make 99?

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The graphic is correct. “Halvfems” is shorthand for “halvfemsindstyvende” which roughly means; halfway to the fifth twenty. So 4,5 or 4-1/2 “twenties” so 90. But nobody rally thinks about that. To most Danes “halvfems” is just the name for 90, just like ninety is in English…

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It should rather be 9 + (5 - 1/2) * 20. Halvfems is halfway from 4 to 5, but the 5 is the value explicitly mentioned

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Not Dane here but I know this:

“fems” is “five twenties”

“halvfems” is “halfway (between 4*20 and) 5*20” = 90

But don’t forget that 100 has its own word and isn’t fems, still 90 is halvfems.

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