Every Country Writes Numbers Slightly Differently 

The reason why India uses its number system different to the west is due to its numbering system in the language there. As in european languages, numbers have a "name change" per every factor of 1000 (e.g. thousands, millions, billions, etc...) whereas in languages (such as hindi) in india after one-thousand, they change by 100 (so the next number after hazar(one-thousand), the next number would be lakh(100-thousond), and the next one after that would be 100 times larger than that which would be a crore(10 million) and then an arab(1 billion) and it will carry on. so one million in Hindi would end up being das lakh (or 10 lakh which is the same as saying 10 hundred-thousonds). Its why if anyone ever watches indian english news youd notice theyd sometimes uses lakh and crore for numbering system there because that is how they think. India system makes sense for Indians speaking in an indian language, im guessing chinese have a weird system as they may have their own way for their numbers to work in their language which makes sense for native Chinese in china

Celsius is also paired with Kelvin, this makes conversions easier.

Being an engineering student, writing 1 million as 1E6 just makes things A LOT easier

I’ve never seen an Aussie write “1 000 000.89” on a test before, we’re taught “1,000,000.89” because it’s easier to tell for certain what number it is in childrens’ handwriting.

5:30 Most of Europe uses . To separate thousands and , to separate decimals. That Europe is mostly blue is wrong.

Proud of being in two minorities at once by being a woman watching your channel that isn't into birds Being from Poland probably contributes to the third, what an accomplishment

10:35 I am a Viet and I used to have a trouble with foreigners’ name writing system. When I was a kid, I couldn't distinguish between a foreigner's last name or a foreigner's first name. It took me two days to understand it.

I think yyyy-mm-dd and the eastern name order make the most sense. The way we write numbers in 'the west' is also thousands, then hundreds, then tens, then ones, so from big to small, or least to most precise. So, starting with years then getting more precise, or starting with the family name and then specifying who from the family, would align better than the other way around.

(7:20) The blue makes the most _grammatical_ sense, since spaces separate words and comma marks the second clause. So the spaces goes between the thousands, and comma marks the second clause which is the decimals. A period ends the sentence. twelvethousand threehundred-and-fortyfive, and sixtyseven. 12 345,67.

In Russia we use eastern name order very often, especially in documents, which makes signing up on foreign services quite confusing

I actually know a girl that is completely terrified of birds. ALL BIRDS. No other animals. JUST BIRDS.

I find it weird that for some reason Latvia is marked as using dd-mm-yyyy and yyyy-mm-dd. I've lived in Latvia my whole life and you ALWAYS use dd-mm-yyyy, no matter if you need to write a date for your test in school, or the date a newspaper was published, you always use dd-mm-yyyy.

Also Bavaria uses the eastern name order in casual speach and, like "der Meier Franz" where it would be in most other parts of germany "Franz Meier". Also on documents like an ID the last name is mostly written above or first, since it's more important because there are a thousand "Stefans", but only few "Stefan Spiegelhauers".

8ºC and you're using a T-shirt? Brave! XD

Fun fact about the order of your given and family names, in Bavaria in Germany (south-eastern state), older people especially, will often use the family name first.

Normal People say "Celsius" ibx2cat says SOURsius

The date format map has Croatia in green and I can say that in 23 years of living here, I have never seen a date written in yyyy-mm-dd format

Here in Canada we use commas… maybe it’s just based off of the area but I have never been told to not use a comma

when it is warm, 10-50 just feels like too low of numbers to describe that level of heat

Fahrenheit is better because you can walk outside at 69 degrees and it's nice weather

I enjoy watching ibx2cat; he’s a provincial Brit with limited understanding of the world! Very entertaining. First, the US does not use “Imperial units”. It uses both US Customary Units and the Metric system. Imperial units were devised by the UK in 1824, nearly 50 years after US independence. The Imperial units and US Customary Units have a common ancestor: British customary units. The US adopted the metric system in 1993. Unlike the UK and other countries, the US retained the US Customary Units as well. Both systems are used on product labels and the American people are free to use either. Surprise, the American people use both. Celsius is a superior temperature scale if you want to measure the temperature of water on a scale of 100. Fahrenheit is a superior scale if you want to measure ambient air temperature on a scale of 100. Americans have both and are free to choose the one they like. The mm/dd/yyyy format was inherited from the British. It is the traditional British way. I can understand why that confuses ibx2cat.

One thing I have to mention is the US is a lot more like Canada with its measurements than you'd think. BOTH the US and Canada officially use the metric system, any US documentation by the federal government is going to be in metric, it is just that everyone of their own accord still uses imperial units and no one calls the Canadians out for doing the same exact thing!

China's system would make perfect sense to you if the number were longer and if you spoke an East Asian language. In the Chinese system, commas go on every fourth digit because in Chinese, Japanese, etc., they don't count in powers of three (thousands, millions, billions, etc.), but rather in powers of 4: 万 = 10^4 = 1,0000 亿 = 10^8 = 1,0000,0000 兆 = 10^12 = 1,0000,0000,0000 京 = 10^16 垓 = 10^20 秭 = 10^24 穰 = 10^28 沟 = 10^32 涧 = 10^36

when you write some documents or school things, in Peru, you write your family name first and then the given one

The Indian system actually makes sense in its context. Whereas we use thousands, millions etc. India's numbering system uses lakh (100,000 or 1,00,000 in their notation) and the crore which is 10 million (10,000,000) or 100,00,000 in their format.

I use Celsius to measure my computer's temperature, and Fahrenheit for weather. Call me weird. I'm sure I'm not the only one who does that. Interstate 19 tried to use metric signs when it was initially built. But the signs and exit numbers were switched back to miles about 20 years ago. As a programmer, I use YYYY-MM-DD. But still use MM/DD/YYYY in other usage. There's a numerical unit named millard. Which is still strange for me.

Given the way that dates are often written out (ex. January 1st, 2022) it makes sense to short form that to 1/1/22. Most people wouldn't say the First of January 2022. It's awkward an wordy sounding comparatively. So I believe it's taking the spoken way of saying the date and literally transcribing it in written form and then shortening it to just numbers

Green countries do indeed say "one comma forty nine" to mean 1,49

2:16 canada be trying to keep everyone happy

0°C freezing point for water 100°C boiling point for water 1L of water = 1kg of water

In Sweden we usually write dd/mm/yr when we write today's date, but the opposite order when we're referring to a date

Wow. This video is all over the place and still somehow really interesting. I am a woman and I love birds. I hope you will make more videos on this since you have only hit the tip of the iceberg in terms of how these problems plague people every day. For example, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (did I forget anyone?) all use the word "rupee" for their currency. They also have measurements such as "lakh" and "crore". But since they all have different valuations, no one seems to know what anyone else is talking about in business transactions or marriage dowry/mahr negotiations. Sri Lanka is (AFAIK) the last country to still use the British land unit of measurement called "perch" even though it fell out of fashion in England WELL before Sri Lanka was a colony of England. In the Indian subcontinent you will see constant changes in signs between Imperial (and I mean that OLD imperial of England that was created by evil people), Metric and fun local units of measurement for distance, money, sizes, weights etc. Honestly this is a bigger problem than having many languages and writing systems when it comes to building human capital infrastructure. If suddenly the whole subcontinent could speak/read/write Hindi there would still be communication hurdles. The UK was smart to get rid of the old monetary system when they did. Now I read a novel that describes how much the protagonist was paying fortnightly for a room and I have to go to some dark recesses of my brain that don't exist for the young people. Sorry to ramble. Go birds.

Everyone I know who lives in the US including myself acknowledge the imperial system is stupid but if we were to covert to metric it would billions of dollars to change things like speed limit sign, height limits on roller coasters, signs that say distance from cities, and other things I haven’t mentioned. Plus a lot of people don’t know how big some things if you used metric, so it would that a lot of money and years learning for us to fully convert to metric.

month-day-year, is better for story telling. right off the bat you understand what month it is taking place in, giving you are better sense of surrounding and atmosphere

7:20 I am Sorry But If Your Born in a Pink or Purple Country. im sorry for you.

0:40 I will go check to see which country landed on the moon first, be right back.

An old friend - a woman - is terrified of birds. She avoids parks because ducks and pigeons abound there. She definitely is NOT "into" birds.

Month:day:year makes the most sense when speaking - so therefore it makes the most sense when writing. It goes in order of importance (month = most important; year = least important ). When asking “when is X (eg tax day)?”, there is no point in saying the year (so that is least important). The most important information is month so you can plan accordingly. The next information you need is day (“ok, it’s in April, but when in April?”). Other questions as examples: When do you harvest potatoes? September When does school start? August When is your anniversary? December When did you start your internship? March Starting with the date is obnoxiously specific. If someone spoke like this: “I started university at 7:05am on the 16th of August in the year 2005 AD” they would sound like a British chode.

In our country we love pigeons , they are delicious.

At least the US decided on one way of writing the date instead of the green, brown and purple countries that use 2 or 3 different systems. That must get so confusing.

Ukraine uses Last name-First name system (sometimes adding patronymic name at the end) 10:00

As a brazilian I can say that the green numeric style is better because we use a dot after 3 numbers and the comma just for not a entire number like cents. If you have a hundred dollars and 50 cents you would write 100,50 because cents it's not a entire dollar, it's a fraction of a dollar

In professional settings, America also uses the yyyymmdd standard for dates

When it comes to writing the numbers, i'm really (cannot emphasize this enough) glad to be born and live in a green country. What do you mean, lower tier? completely disagree on that (but respect your opinion).

We use the 1 234 567,89 system where I live. And, well... For example, we don't pronounce number 1,39 as 'jedna čárka třicet devět' (one comma thirty-nine) but as 'jedna celá třicet devět setin' (which I would roughly translate as "one whole and thirty-nine hundredths") :D

0:05 in Hong Kong we do use the metric and imperial systems of measurement simultaneously like in Britain (obviously since we were part of the UK until 1997), but on top of that we also use the Chinese imperial system of measurement. So if you were to go to a supermarket in Hong Kong, you would see rice weighed in kilos, fruit weighed in pounds, and meat weighed in catties. Now the British system isn’t that weird after all, eh?

4:52 I'm writing 1 million like this: 1mln or 1m

He’s so energetic and exited 🤩🤩

Canada actually uses imperial for body parts whilst we use metric for everything else In Canada it depends on which province you’re in Quebec: 1 000 000,000 Others: 100 000 000.000

the metricimperial thing gets even more hilarious when you look into the military of those "imperial" nations ... there they use metric excessivly, sometimes in a very strange mix with imperial. That began with WW1 and shifted further to metric with NATO being a thing. In science its also a complete mess in the UK/US ... creating all sorts of mindblowing failures, which occasionally cost billions and even took lifes. Being stubborn truly is a pain.

Well, for formal stuff we use metric, and in MLA you are supposed to write the date Day Month Year.

Green is just red but commas and dots are swapped what's so bad about that

Someone else might have commented this before but the reason its 12,34,56,789 in India is because we dont use million, billion, etc. For us, its hundred (100), thousand (1,000), lakh (1,00,000), crore ( 1,00,00,000). After thousand, everything increases in multiple of hundreds, hence the commas after 2 zeros.

My partner is terrified of pigeons and crows/ravens it's not birds in general though as she's had an owl and falcon perch on a glove. It honestly rattles my brain

yyyy-mm-dd is superior because it sorts in the same order regardless of whether you use numerical, alphabetical, or chronological sorting.

Anders Celcius died in 1744 age 43.The americans still believe he was 109.

Fahrenheit is substantially better for climate control. The ideal indoor temperature is between 70-73 F. You can handle that with two digits on a thermostat. 70-73 F in Celsius is 21.1111-22.7778. Meanwhile 21°C translates to 69.8°F and 22°C translates to 71.6°F. You lose 0.8°F of control with each degree when using Celsius to control indoor temperatures. Humans are incredibly finicky about indoor relative humidity and temperatures. Fahrenheit is just a more realistic option and saves digits on a thermostat.

10:33 here in italy we also use surname first often but colloquially we use the name first

So we all write numbers in the same way but disagree on which way we write units, dates, whether or not we have pigeons and which name order we use. Great video title.

In eastern countries, family is very valued so it makes sense to put our family name first! To show respect to our parents and ancestors! But it’s okay to switch our family and first names when it’s our english name, whether it’s our additional eng name or the eng romanisation of our names.

For numbers, I like to write 123'456'789.000 This would make sense for most of the people, and you can optionally use , or ., whould be a problem because everything is separated by '

I am an American, and I remember having a conversation with my friends questioning why we do mm/dd/yyyy.

I was born female and yes, I like birds. So much so, I will be going to school for ecology and environmental science (aka the closest thing to ornithology (the study of birds) since no schools that I’ve researched actually have dedicated classes for ornithology)

As a woman, I can confirm, I personally really like birds. But I have plenty of friends who are also women who don’t really like birds or are just neutral about them

i am an indian and I've never defended india's number system because i understand it's pretty weird.

Paraguay wasnt listed in the numbers map but we use points like this 1.000.000 and comas for decimals like this 0,15

celsius is for science, fahrenheit is for weather

I hate when i have something from America and the expiration date on it is mm/dd/yyyy and I don’t know whether it has gone bad or not.

I like toycat's "chilly southerner" accent around 2:10 when he's talking about temperature

Because growing up with the imperial system I hated being taught the metric, it's like with money, Why have a 1000 dollar note when you can have one singular dollar? And temptress is so much more easier with just single and double digits, I know 80 degrees is a rather warm tempature while 40 degrees is just frickin cold

Celsius is objectively better for science purposes. Fahrenheit is (IMO) better for day-to-day purposes, since it's based on humans, whereas Celsius is based on water. The larger scale of Fahrenheit allows for more flexibility, such as with body temperature, but Celsius is more logical. I couldn't tell you the boiling temp of water in F, but in C, it's easy (as ya'll know). However, I know that 100 F is too hot, 90 is unbearable, 80 is stuffy, 70 is alrightish, 60 is nice, 50 is kinda cold, 40 is pretty cold, and 30 needs to be lower than 32 so it can snow. As an American, I can't talk about Celsius and its measurements in day-to-day scenarios.

Lol the Philippines is similar to the UK. We measured most things in metric but we still use imperial system like height and dimensions and area of some things. Local carpenters outside cities also use feet and inches.

People: america only uses imperial and not metric Americans: *loads 9mm*

i will stand by fahrenheit until the end of time

He nailed that Georgian American accent and didn't even know it

My sister is actually terrified of pidgeons

Hm... I still consider a hot day in the UK to be 100 (F) and a cold one to be 0 (C). Temp wise, the hot days are in F. Makes perfect sense to me.

9:50 I'm a girl, I don't really like birds. They're okay, but I honestly don't care. I know exactly one person who used to be very into birds, including pigeons

Putting number like "1 234 567,89" is not very practicable either, because you could easily confuse them as being separate numbers.

6:13 I’m Aussie, i was taught this way (no commas) BUT, i prefer using commas… (1,000,000,000)

The French use comma’s instead of decimal points in their number system.

The jndian coma in number system is because after 10k we use the Indian numbers which are lakhs, crores etc.

I'm in Canada. We started converting to Metric around 1975 or so. The only thing that we still use Fahrenheit for is on our ovens for baking things. The new ones do have both units on them. Other than that no one I know (except really old people) uses °F.

I agree, because what if someone needs to work outside of the USA and they’re met with a different system

I'm British and I personally only use the metric because it was the one I was taught when I went to school in the 90s and the 2000s

britain literally forced their colonies to use imperial, then switched to metric.

Here in Zambia we use the metric system but bring a TV and use centimeters, no one will know it's size, say the size in inches everyone will know the size

I am a woman and this is what I know about birds: they are animals and they have wings.

The number system of India (afaik) doesn't use millions and billions but instead uses lakhs and crores. About one hundred thousand is equal to one lakh. So 1 million = 10 lakh and 10 million = 1crore. I hope that helps you understand why the commas are used where they are used.

In Canada it is the same a the UK, hight and weight are in feet and ponds, but most other things are metric

I am a woman, I don't have a problem with birds, I like them, they are pretty and cute but I wouldn't say I have a particular interest in them.

hate to break it to you, but unless you're willing to live in a desert (a hot or a cold one), you'll never be free of pigeons

In Austria we use the eastern name order too sometimes, for example: Großschädl Schurl. (btw this Name is legit and means George Bighead)

As a Canadian, I have a story. When we were in Primary School, we were taught using 1,000,000.00 but then the teachers would check their book or whatever and just tack on "You're supposed to use spaces, just so you know." They didn't really teach us to use spaces but I guess we know it's an option.

The chinese system makes sense as they have a word for ten thousand, so they distribute by groups of 4. The more infuriating is that koreans also talk by groups of four zeros but still write numbers distributed in groups of 3.

Fun Fact: While the order of Given Name - Family Name is the official one and the one most germans use in conversations and every day life, there are areas in Germany where you use the other way around in colloquial language

Fun Fact: Brazil didn't have pigeons, the Brazilians of the time thought that France looked cool and tried to be like them, they infested the country with pigeons because of that.

The first map is wrong. Canadians mostly use the metric system but there is a lot of times where people will use Imperial. For weather we will use Celsius but for cooking we will mostly use Fahrenheit. On my driver's license my height will be in cm, but if someone asks me my height in a regular conversation and I tell them in cm they will usually not understand and ask for feet and inches.

The odd Chinese Number system actually has to do with the Chinese Language itself: In English you count in thousands i.e. thousands, millions, billions.... But in Chinese you actually count in ten thousands i.e. 万 （10 000），亿（100 000 000），兆（1 000 000 000 000） For example 100 000 wouldn't be "A hundred times a thousand" but 十万 "Ten times Ten Thousand" So putting the comma every 4 digits instead of every 3 makes sense for the language

As a Czech, I can say it's not that easy with name order. Given name first is the generic way, however in a lot of (not all) documents and in the profession is family name the first.