where does expressions like to the 9's and being 86'd come from...also who knows some other expressiond?
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Several expressions come from goverment organizations such as military, police, etc... that have to code everything for added complexity.  Just the way a 187 is the code for a murder in law enforcement.  There are many others that leak out into public, first through family members that have had to endure these coded expressions at home, then through friends socializing with out of the office buddies!  There are also codes like these used in everyday businesses.  saying " I need a 52" in certain stores means that you need someone with a mop!\n\nThere is also the old time phrases that have been modified as time goes on such as from the gold miners after the 1949 gold rush... known as the 49ers...Of course you can't forget the rating scales on the club scene... By the way I am a 10!!! plus or minus a few...\n\nHope this helps!
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A score is exactly twenty.  \n\nSo four scores and seven years ago is actually 87 years ago.\n\nKind of fun isn't it...\n\nSince we are talking about names of numbers -- did you know that eleven comes from the Old English for "one left over." -- So, now that you know that, I bet you have some idea where twelve comes from -- what do you think it might be?\n\nJust in case, you are in doubt it is also Old English in its origin and yes you guessed it -- it means "two left over."\n\nAh, the joys of English Literature being applied to Mathematics.\n\nBest wishes,  \n\nMrMerchant
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You see: \n9\n19\n29\n39\n49\n59\n69\n79\n89\n90\n91\n92\n93\n94\n95\n96\n97\n98\n99\n\n\n\nThat counts 20 9s.\n\nI did not see other answers. When I saw your question, I smiled because I know that you did mislead us as 9, 19... for avoiding the nervous nintees.\n\n\n\nThank you for this nice Question.\n\n\n--- LeeeN
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2213 2 7999 x nine = 1991 95 1991\n\n2212 2 7999 x nine = 1991 05 1991\n\nthere is more answers
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My 1st 5 #'s are: 10,34,25,59,12 and my last # is 3.\nMy equation was *59/*10=5.9 , *25-5.9=19.1, *34-19.1=14.9 , 14.9-*12=(2.9). I figuerd since my end result was really close to my last # it would count if you rounded up. Does it?
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I think that somebody started saying it that way and it caught on.  I agree with you that it seems arbitrary.  It might also be that this changes over time.  Maybe a couple of decades from now, people will be saying "twenty o six".
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Numbers 1 - 9 are spelled out, once you get to10 and above, you can just use the numerals. Here's a web site to prove my point...\n\nhttp://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp
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I POSTED THE FIRST CORRECT ANSWER HERE AND WAS WRONGLY DELETED FOR A BOGUS VIOLATION REPORT\n\nI posted last night around 12pm, here was my (correct) answer:\n\nOk so let the tens digit be x, then the ones digit is (12-x). The value of the number is 10*x+(12-x) = 9x+12 which you are told = 11x 9x+12=11x 12=2x x=6 12-x=6 also So the number is 66. (Check x = 6*11 as claimed.)\n\n(There is some severely dishonest point-gaming going on around here)
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ninety two thousandths\nthirty and five one hundredths\n9/125\nfour and twelve one hundredths\ntwenty four thousandths\n\nHave fun\n:)
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Three...tri, 3 of. 9....er dont know a smart word for nine is......Eleven, 11th heavean? (its 7th but oh well) and zero, a number having no value of. 3 is  important becuz its gives a value 3 of, like a 3 dollars? 3 orders of lavash please, i mean, these #'s have high importance of, but what . Here do this, got for like 3, 9 or 11 days without saying any of this numbers and c what u come up with, sorry this is the best i can think of (3 is important cuz i liked, used it in this paragraph, so yeah, theres one for ya :)
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I do both of those and I also test numbers for divisibility.  My car license plate has as its numeric part the number 594 which is divisible by 11, that's how I remember my license plate number.  Also, when someone asks me to pick a number between 1 and 10, I usually pick pi, phi, or e, just to be a smart@$$.  They didn't say an INTEGER between 1 and 10, did they???
372111
Wait a minute everybody!\nthose vertical lines,( lyl ) could mean absolute value!!\nHelloooo?\nso the answerSSS could be 9 and -9\nsheesh!
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-9,980,123,110\n\ndisregard -9,980,123,100 from the range -9,980,123,110 to 9,980,123,109\n\nit will become -9,980,123,109 to 9,980,123,109\ntake their sum, it's zero. right?\n\nadd zero to the -9,980,123,110 that we disregarded earlier.\n\nthe answer would be -9,980,123,110
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Erm..... \n\nALT + 465 = ╚\nAlt + 25 = ↓\nALT + 12 = ♀\nALT  + 13 = ♪\nALT + 26 = →\nALT + 21 = §\nALT + 69 = E\n\nI'm just guessing randomised letters with the alt button, Lol. Hope it helps. ( VOTE ME BEST !! ) I gave you the song tune
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Again, it's derived from the last 2 letters in these words:  firST, secoND, thiRD, fourTH\n\nThe function stndrdth when used with a number such as a date gives the correct -st -nd -rd -th ending to that number
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think of having 7 pluses \n+ + + + + + +\nand 3 minuses\n- - -\nyou cannot take away 3 minuses from 3 pluse,therefore,\nadd 3 pluses and 3 minuses to the plus 7:\n+ + + + + + + + + + - - - .Now you can take away the 3 minuses and you end up with 10 pluses.
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I think the expression is "up and at them". At least, that's what I've always heard. I can see where if you are just waking up it would sound a bit different.