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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Try to throw the puzzle into sudoku.coach’s solver and you’ll find a ton of techniques that completely eliminate the guesswork.

    I find sukdokus extremely fun and I never need to guess on a 6/7 out of 10 in difficulty. My suggestion is to take it slow at lower difficulties to get acquainted with the simpler techniques before springing to the harder difficulties.





  • Correct.

    • Half to the second (halvanden, still in use today) = 1.5
    • Half to the third (halvtredje) = 2.5
    • Half to the fourth (halvfjerde) = 3.5
    • Half to the fifth (halvfemte) = 4.5

    And so on. You might notice that I sometimes write it like “halvfemte” and other times “halvfems”. The latter is just the way it was spelled when used in a combined word (another fun quirk in Danish that we inherited from Germanic this time!). 90 is today spelled just “halvfems”.






  • The reason is that the Danish numbering system is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system instead of the decimal system. Why is a good question but it might have been influenced by French during a time where numbers from 50-100 is less frequently used, making them prone to complexity. The fractions simply occur since you need at least one half of twenty (10) to make the change from e.g 50 to 60 in a 20-based system.


  • Even worse. 90 in old Danish is “halvfemsindstyve” but it is rarely used today. The “sinds” part is derived from “sinde” means multiplied with but it is not in use in Danish anymore. That leaves halvfems, meaning half to the five (which is not used alone anymore) and tyve meaning twenty (as it still does).

    We are in current Danish shortening it to halvfems which actually just means “half to the five” in old Danish (2.5) to say 90. 92 is then “tooghalvfems” (two and half to the five, or 2+2.5). The “sindstyve” part (multiplied with 20) fell out of favour.

    So we at least have some rules to the madness. Were just not following them at all anymore.






  • More accurately, Denmark’s postal service stops delivering post.

    This is a direct consequence of the free market act from 2023 that no longer obligated PostNord to deliver post and stopped paying for the service. It is no surprise that post delivery isn’t a profit market, especially in this day and age, so IMO that was a pretty stupid idea from our politicians. Now only Dao delivers post but there’s nothing stopping them from saying “this island is too expensive to deliver pos to. Come pick up your shit in the mainland’s ferry terminal.” And trust me, we have a lot of islands for such a small country.





  • Same people who’s maintaining it today. We need to look up business hours anyway on top of looking up time zones. E.g. business hours in Denmark is usually 8-16 while in UK it is usually 9-17. Here there’s furthermore differences at the usual company. IMO you’re inconsiderate if you start planning meetings without taking the business hours of the recipients into account (which means all our UK enployess are inconsiderate jerks on this topic, calling me in for meetings until 18:00…)

    So instead of looking up the time zone difference and the cultural business hours of a company in Australia, I can just see that they open after my lunch.