Numbers Make No Sense…

[@butforwhytho8347]

Wait until Universal hears about the letters "b, d, p, q"

[@Rybus1]

Naaah, just glue em all together: ф

[@LucasFonsecaMartins]

Or I and l 😂

[@glockenrein]

M and W. 😂

[@mikelytou]

Meanwhile Arabic: We want the same letter to look different depending on if it's at the start, the middle or ending of a word, and another look for when it's isolated. Also, the differences must be unidentifiable for people with slightly bad eyesight. Moreover, since we want as few people as possible to read & write, let's make sure they need a talent for art in order to write and to deter even those, let's write from right to left so that the right handed majority will smear what they wrote.

[@wokenlunatic2849]

Or S and Z (they short of close, also o 0)

[@Lyllian82]

"I hate my job." Don't we all sometimes...?

[@akashgiri4377]

Not sometimes, most of the times

[@GodMaxDrinkerofTea]

I got no Job to hate until August, instead, I just hate everything equally

[@X4R80]

@@akashgiri4377maybe consider getting a new one?

[@urhypeboy]

No one likes to work.

[@GodMaxDrinkerofTea]

@@urhypeboy not true, a lot of people love working, otherwise hobbies wouldn't exist, they are also work

[@igmali2363]

"I want 9 to be 6 from behind" 😮😮😮

[@barrymanning4861]

I wonder if that was on purpose

[@danrazART]

​@@barrymanning4861of course! 😅

[@priyankadebnath7936]

69

[@nadinem599]

😂😂 my gutter mind caught that real quick

[@mauer1]

69

[@grahamh.4230]

“I want 6 from behind” 7 ate 9, but 6 ate out 9

[@momsaccount4033]

Oh my.. is it just me or is it getting hot in here?~

[@TELofficial]

Oh hell nah

[@rodrigoqteixeira]

Oh, wait, it got too far 💀

[@FrictionHeat143]

Friction has commenced

[@FrictionHeat143]

If you know you know

[@jeffreyhe1470]

zero: "I'm I a joke to you?" zero: "oh right, you're not smart enough to know I exist yet."

[@BetaDude40]

Zero: "Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet… but your kids are gonna love it"

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

We'll just use the letter o and say it means zero.

[@zm_headhunter]

Well the Arabic numerals have come out centuries after the zero was discovered

[@sumbodee3]

But zero doesn't confuse and never distorts no matter the rotation

[@Darur1308]

@@sumbodee3it does, with o

[@warriorbard]

He was trying sooo hard not to throw in a 69 joke. You could practically see the word on the tip of his tongue. 🤣🤣🤣

[@krankarvolund7771]

I'm pretty sure 9 is a 6 from behind is a 69 joke :p

[@TheBassManBoy]

A true test of restraint

[@urhypeboy]

Not everyone is prverted like u

[@urhypeboy]

Not everyone is dirty minded like u

[@urhypeboy]

Not everyone is into dirty jokes

[@ileahoward9426]

One of the options was seven upside down anyway😂

[@TheJourneyTo-Me]

Seen it too 😂

[@TheJourneyTo-Me]

And the eight it self …. just with additional circle 😂😂😂🤣

[@1Kekz]

No, it's not upside down, it's actually flipped. That's a huge difference because that way you can't confuse them so easily.

[@louisrobitaille5810]

@@1Kekz That's like saying 'b' and 'd' would be easier to tell apart than 'b' and 'p'. When it's something new, they're just as hard to tell apart, no matter if they're flipped or upside down.

[@1Kekz]

@@louisrobitaille5810 The reason why 6 and 9 are so easy to confuse is because if you hold them upside down (which can easily happen on game cards or dice with numbers) they look alike. With something that's just flipped, that can't happen so easily.

[@Army_Dog]

And this is why people add a line under the number to avoid confusion

[@nnh4551]

But this might not be needed

[@Army_Dog]

@@nnh4551 what?

[@poppers7317]

never seen someone add a line

[@nnh4551]

Adding a line under the number

[@nnh4551]

In addition, we normally don't do that in most cases

[@dxjxc91]

I blame French. I'm sure he was involved somehow...

[@Redfork2000]

Nah, he's probably busy coming up with a convoluted way to say 70, 80 and 90.

[@GengUpinIpin]

You skipped your Duolingo didnt you?

[@somarushinde1704]

Numbers are Arabic

[@rodrigovillegas2263]

@@somarushinde1704yeah, came here to say that.

[@christineheminger7762]

Had the same thought 😄

[@Levitatingmarsipan]

This is made even better by the fact that the Swedish word for 6 (six) is “sex”, sex (not the number) is also the name for sex in Swedish (and of course in English). So him really liking 6 has a whole new meaning now

[@Normal_user_coniven]

yeah. Why Germanic languages pick similar names for these 2 different things?

[@PhoenixInFirestadium]

That just reminded me on a story from my childhood. Next to our elementary school was secondary school and a phone booth and I guess some teenage kid vandalized it and wrote the word "sex" on it. Me as a kid not knowing what that was just thought in like a know-it-all manner "that's totally spelt wrong, it's spelled 's e c h s' (german for six)" and that some stupid elementary kid paid no attention in school. This memory comes back every few years and I don't know why little miss know-it-all me haunts me that much. 😂😂

[@GuitarsRockForever]

That will be confusing. Now something else: with certain accent (eg. NZ), six is pronounced as sex, and sex is pronounced as six.

[@user-ci7wi4kp4z]

I wish I wasn’t saw it

[@Levitatingmarsipan]

@@Normal_user_coniven honestly we don’t know either

[@dominikbeitat4450]

My grandparents had a clock where the 7 was an upside down 2, so, could be worse.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

🇨🇵 We need a line through 7. I learned this when a bank transfer for 70.000 French francs from England ended up as 10.000 French francs in my account in 1989. 😮

[@PlayItAgainTubeSam]

Auch! I always use a line through 7 when writing. Just to be clear. For same reason ppl should use it for a zero to distinguish from a big o (Ø - O) And then there are in some lettertypes almost no difference between an l an a big i ( l - I )

[@andrewrobinson2565]

@@PlayItAgainTubeSam I hear you 👍.

[@samuelahibo339]

​@@PlayItAgainTubeSam Actually those are all different when written in french, And instead of the 0 with line, we actually write big O (and even small o) with a kind of horizontal curved line in the circle You could do some research about French handwriting if u want

[@jamesreed3006]

There is actually a correct way to write each number which is the number of angles in the number is equal to the value of the number. The method for 7 and 9 is weird but the rest are cool.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

@@samuelahibo339 Interesting 🤔. I haven't heard that one and I'm French and seem to get along fine 👍.

[@justiceleague5431]

And thats how 69 was born

[@TareqAstroPhoton]

is porn you mean

[@poppers7317]

nice

[@likithsolasa]

Keep the likes at the good number

[@ionutznecro]

If Elijah Wood and Joaquin Phoenix had a baby, it would look just like this guy.

[@urhypeboy]

Nah, he's not beautiful enough to be their baby.

[@_B1A]

we have to talk about how 6 was named "six"

[@wassentme1891]

I can definitely see Ryan George popping into "Six is great", "Good from all angles", "Six is even better with friends", etc. And the inevitable "nice" when he first writes 6 and 9 together.

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

From Proto-Indo-European *swécs, with no relation to sex (which comes from *séksus via Latin and French)

[@personperson.7744]

@@wassentme1891six is great I decided

[@sutash9043]

🤣🤣 definitely intersting conversation

[@sutash9043]

Hmm, makes me wonder why he insisted on flipping 6 to make 9. He probably loooves seeing those next to each other 🤣🤣

[@akube5605]

forget universal, we've got numerversal

[@4theLifeOfTae]

From the Alphabet to numbers there's no stopping 😅

[@bokatummtukote]

shall we just stop for a moment, truly appreciating from head to toes, how talented Loic is, scripting and filming all his 60 second shorts with such a perfect flow, playing all characters himself!!

[@U.K.N]

NO , I HATE THESE NERDY COMMENTS

[@dabbyleemiller]

​@@U.K.NI just want to appreciate, head to toe, how genuine and honest your comment is and I think we should all take a moment to appreciate you ❤

[@Muksss]

"Six from behind" 😭😭😭😭

[@ElderSteak5]

“I love six” 💀

[@vladsydorenko]

loooooove six

[@amberv9424]

My phone battery is at exactly 69% right now 😂

[@Delibro]

Are you having 52 subscribers cus of this comment? :DD

[@amberv9424]

@@Delibro no they came over a long period one by one. Why? I don't know. I don't even have any videos. I just get a new subscriber every so often. Probably from my picture I guess

[@Delibro]

@@amberv9424 Ok, that's what I thought, no videos, so maybe from your comment :) Yea, likely its your picture :)

[@MiguelQ]

There are even slightly different ways to write numbers. Some people write the 1 as a simple line others add "half a roof". Some write the 7 as like an upside down L, while others add a little cross line to it.

[@marcos.e.herlein1986]

Same with the four, using "4" or the other that looks like an inverted chair seen from the side..

[@MrNyathi1]

Those fancy forms help prevent ambiguity. A simple 7 looks too much like a "half roof" 1, and a simple one looks too much like a capital I. The number 0 and letter O also look too similar: I slash the number when writing.

[@marcos.e.herlein1986]

@@MrNyathi1 I've seen it before with the 0. A co-worker used to do it.

[@DharokHardOn]

​@@MrNyathi1definitely going to start doing the same, coworkers will be furious when I figure out ways to add a slash to 2 and 5

[@krankarvolund7771]

I write 1 with a little foot personally. It's an habit I took I don't know when, but it's more confusing because when I write quickly the little foot can become a bar on the middle and I wrote a 7 XD

[@influx8450]

That first 9 design looks like Gimel in cursive

[@KasaiRayquaza]

That's how I feel about the Katakana for ツ/シ, and ン/ソ/リ. You need a dang protractor just to read and write.

[@louisrobitaille5810]

I've got a pretty good trick to tell them apart 👀. ツ is tsu because the 2 lines go down, like a T. シ is shi because the 2 lines are kinda horizontal, like the top part of an S. I've got a different one for the other two though. ン is nn because the line goes down, like when writing a 'n' and ソ is so because "it's not ン (n), ソ (so) it has to be so." I still can't tell the difference easily between リ (ri) and い (i) in some fonts too 🥲.

[@KasaiRayquaza]

@@louisrobitaille5810 Thanks! I'll have to give that a shot! I've also typically found that context clues typically help. But I still feel like I need a protractor when I'm writing it. 😅

[@temp1851]

When we learnt numbers in schools, it used to have a straight line instead of a curved one.

[@jonamonstera]

Also French: „4x20“ (80)

[@samuraireid]

(Just from a common mistake a find on English learning subreddits) are you perhaps learning English?

[@Tfin]

Ah, modernity. (Kids these days!) My 9s and 6s were quite distinct when I learned to write numbers. The 9 was a circle and a straight line, while the 6 was a loop. 1s and 7s, on the other hand....

[@SovietReunionYT]

Other notable problems, specific to handwriting: 1 and 2 are easily miswritten looking like 7 3 and 5 are easily miswritten looking like 8 6 and 9 are extremely easily miswritten as 8 5 is extremely easily miswritten as 6 Frankly I'm amazed there isnt an epidemic of accidental prescription medication overdoses given doctors' handwriting. I imagine 80% of pharmacists' training is spent learning how to decipher handwritten prescriptions.

[@irne2847]

The way we were taught to write 1, 2 and 7 was actually done in such a way that all 3 of those looked nothing like each other. 2 had a wavy bottom part, 7 had a wavy top part and a bar through the middle of it. 1 just looks like the 1 I’m typing right now. 5 also had a wavy top part, so it wouldn’t look like a 6 even if you somehow closed the bottom part into a circle by accident, and would never look like 8 for that exact reason

[@SovietReunionYT]

@@irne2847 People here are taught the same but by high school the necessary speed of writing leaves no time for wavy parts. I've heard it gets way worse in medical school and that's why doctors have notably bad handwriting.

[@nilspochat8665]

le génie là, c'est que son design alternatif du 9 est aussi composé d'un (demi-rond) et d'une barre. Comme toutes les lettres et chiffres. Des *ronds* et des *barres.*

[@vincentcrette3830]

On dirait tellement qu'il dit "I love se*" 😅 Mais continue mec t'es un génie 💪😉

[@abarette_]

c'est ça l'angla*s

[@louisrobitaille5810]

Sex peut vouloir dire six selon la provenance du mot, comme dans sexagénaire (personne dans la soixantaine).

[@camembertdalembert6323]

c'est justement le thème de la vidéo...

[@SimonOpsi]

It gets even better when you translate "I love six" into Swedish xD

[@guptaa]

Zero: Am I a joke to you?

[@justinwhite2725]

Literally nothing to me.

[@urud591]

Zero is even worse than 6 and 9, since you have to add a bar to avoid confusion with the O, for example when you write a code, IBAN, password, ecc.

[@guptaa]

@@urud591 some fonts also write zero with a bar

[@searchingfororion]

Sorry '0', you weren't invented until a long time after... There's actually a really cool documentary about this. People were literally fighting each other (in every way) about the existence of 0 and if it should be adopted in their systems or not. Imagine trade embargos and scholars throwing hands all because one group wanted to use '0's and the other didn't. (I think it's also a great example of how we humans haven't changed *that* much when it comes to escalating a topic to - retrospectively - ridiculous proportions.)

[@angelarojas7231]

The other options were 2 upside down, 7 upside down, 7 upside down and flipped to the other side, 8 upside down, and a circle with a line below which already looked like 9 lol

[@mohammedbelgoumri]

How can you flip 8 upside down?

[@angelarojas7231]

@@mohammedbelgoumri the upper circle is usually smaller than the lower circle, so if you flip it upside down then the smaller circle would be in the lower position while the bigger one would be in the upper position

[@JumKrozBow]

How do we cheat on UNO if every number looks different?

[@dexterboy2736]

UFO ?

[@bacchadumII]

He’s crying so much when one of his alternate designs was an upside down 7 😂😂

[@rainynight02]

Fun fact, the original numbers were written so they had that number of angles in the number itself. 6 and 9 looked different at the time but things changed, they grew more similar.

[@terence7025]

Thank you. I wrote something similar, but only now saw your comment.

[@salehaqabrawi6353]

7 and 8 are the same in Arabic ٧ ٨

[@jamesraphaelcarter5434]

Do you it’s call the Arabic number

[@talaal-jabakhnji6606]

both are Arabic numbers bud😂

[@jamesraphaelcarter5434]

@@talaal-jabakhnji6606 my bad 🤣🤣

[@talaal-jabakhnji6606]

@@jamesraphaelcarter5434 all good, just one was used in the east which is ٧ ٨ and the other was used mostly in the west of the Arabic world (aka Morocco and was introduced to Europe from there)

[@barneylaurance1865]

@@jamesraphaelcarter5434Yeah we call them Arabic numbers but the rest are very different what's used in modern Arabic now.

[@LilyPillow]

“six from behind” 💀💀💀

[@elcrz2449]

The upside down 7 as another idea for nine is great 😂

[@amongus98223]

"I love six!" "I love *six in latin* !"

[@andresstadelmann7583]

I love how one of 9's alternate designs is just an upside down seven

[@hex_a_lexa]

"Six from behind" 😂😂😂😂

[@friendlycheese5257]

Not the second alternative looking like a flipped 7😂

[@fortgunv6465]

I love how one of the alternative designs for 9 was an upside down 7 but that's the whole problem he brings up

[@yunosonozaki6284]

He liked 6 so much he had to FLLLIP it

[@angiek8333]

i like how the "alternative designs" for the number 9, he's included an upsidedown 7 😂😂

[@azagisiyatitusatawine1916]

" I want 9 to be six from behind" 😂

[@thesame7423]

"7.5±1.5" "Agreed!"

[@--..-...-..-.--....]

"Now if six turned out to be nine, i don't care, i don't care"

[@Swagpion]

"Ok, then make the tail strait.

[@yoyoh318]

"I loooooooove six" YOOOOOOOOOOO 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@YuugiArry]

Universal: a flipped 6 is confusing, here's a set of alternatives that include a flipped 7 and an 8 with an extra head to choose from. 😆

[@super.heraut.officiel]

"i want the nine to be six from behind" definitely a title.

[@galaxystealth7652]

Please do one skit about the ways people right 2, 4, 7 with the line in the middle, etc 😂

[@xwtek3505]

That 8 with three holes looks much more cursed than rotated 6

[@iifelineiiii]

If English had chosen an alternate design, we would have been blessed and the 69 joke wouldn’t exist

[@jl44257]

We have infinite designs: proceeds to show an 8 with an extra loop, a 7 upside down and a 3 drawn from right to left 😅

[@HarpreetSingh-rs6ud]

Universal: *tells English that nine being an upside-down six is confusing* Also universal:* proceeds to recommend and upside-down 7*

[@lastweasel]

I like how one of the alternatives is just 7 rotated. lol

[@user-Mr.MM07]

When I didn't notice the caption, "Six is great"🗿💀💀🗿

[@jlchips]

They’re best together though…

[@Kamado_Nezuko23]

One spelling mistake and the whole conversation would go wrong 💀💀

[@pelayomedina2174]

Thanks god it was not the 8 upside down

[@Johrm]

It feels soo weird when he says “love six, i loooooovvveee siiixxx”

[@inassh8685]

"Six from behind" Shut up, mind!

[@cuppiecupsters]

Wait til he hears about Uno cards…

[@idkamethyst1762]

the upside down 7 lol

[@KrazyCouch2]

I love how one of the "infinite" designs for 9 is literally 7 flipped.

[@veikkokunkel1266]

People from New Zealand: "He certainly loves sex"

[@cheesesentience]

The next day: "Hey, remember how nine is just six but upside-down and how they both look awesome? I wonder what they would look like together😏?"

[@BolaZ7777]

Six from behind…. I see what you’re doing there…😂😂😂

[@cannibalbananas]

Can we change out 3? For some reason my hand hates making that squiggle. It either ends up w/ an extra bump or no bump and looks like a backwards c

[@alexslanski4902]

For me it's 4. Hate fours.

[@adde9506]

Have you tried the pointy top 3? Drawing a pregnant 7 is a pretty different hand motion.

[@cannibalbananas]

@@adde9506 Those do force me to slow down so they look better. Maybe I'll try switching to those more often🤔👍

[@Rosebud076]

This is why I never curve the little stem when I write 9, it’s always a straight line

[@phantomphoenix8828]

I like that one of the designs he suggested is just an upsidedown 7

[@LittleWriterSquirrel]

This is so accurate🤣🤣

[@cinnabread9306]

Lol the first "alternate design" looks like the letter C in the Hylian alphabet

[@ankurdhawan8287]

What if English liked nine so much that he flipped nine to get a six

[@minotor3317]

This video must go viral

[@Bruhbruh-on3ms]

Wait till he hears it all repeats. It always does.

[@elijahevers2657]

If anyone is wondering, the design for numbers actually came from counting the angles that were displayed in the symbol. 0 being a ellipse like shape has no angles, 1 just has the single angle at the top, 2 when drawn with no curve on top looks like a Z which has two angles, and so on

[@mellie4174]

😂😂😂😂 Loved this. Mad joke skills here!

[@LadyDragonbane]

I'm so relieved this sketch isn't in a Scandinavian language 😂

[@willowtree6487]

Now you have to explain why!

[@magnusengeseth5060]

@@willowtree6487 Our word for six is "sex".

[@magnusengeseth5060]

If you for some reason wanted to write "He had sex with six strippers at his bachelor party" in Swedish it would be: -Han hade sex med sex strippor på sin svensexa.

[@willowtree6487]

@@magnusengeseth5060 oh I see…..! 😂

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

An Australian needs to redub this video, “six from behind”

[@Tristen_French_Horn]

“And this is how 6 hates 9”

[@alexou6748]

The irony of him saying there is a infinite amount of possibility but he show him a upside down 7 LMFAO

[@1stCommentCop]

Fun fact in Swedish six translates to sex, which makes this video ten times funnier for me.

[@frenche2480]

As a type designer this makes my life easier, one less number to draw, amazing

[@Kram668]

Well, we can all agree that 7±2 is "6", which ever side you look at it. Thank you physics, for introducing a buffer in measurements.

[@douglasandrews8977]

No, seven minus two equals five. I think that you meant 7.5±1.5.

[@Kram668]

@@douglasandrews8977 ±x (plus or minus x) means "with a margin of error of x in both direction". So mine depicts the range of all numbers, from 5 to 9 included.

[@Kram668]

@@douglasandrews8977 sorry I was mistaken. You're right, should have said "with a margin of 2" .

[@SeaToon]

Oh the contrary, I actually like that original design for 9

[@stevenjulian8590]

I love how the number 0 hadn't been invented at that time

[@Clara-yu7xr]

Fun fact:these numbers were design to have that much of angles in its shape so like 1 has one angle and so on

[@vecvan]

either your 9 has nine angles in it or the system only went to like 5 ... which is why French uses 4×20+10 instead of 90 "quatre-vingt-diz". Not that there's anything wrong with it, not worse than 4×100+10 = 410 "quatre-cent-diz"

[@dalehammond3591]

Don't let him know that 81 will be 18 from behind.

[@nekonink6647]

🤐

[@michael__..]

Little did they know that it'd turn out to be perfect. 6 and 9, they go hand in hand

[@OmgRodYT]

That’s why they sometimes have lines under them

[@w4wz]

Tbf his 9 looked like an upside down 7

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

You’re really giving us credit for a numeral system invented in Arabia?

[@Deathnotefan97]

Fun fact: The original versions of the Arabic numbers (which is what we use) were designed in such a way that the number of angles within each numbers design was the number itself For example, "2" was written as "Z" and has 2 angles Bonus fun fact: 0 was the only number not constructed with a series of straight lines, and is also the only one that hasn't changed at all

[@alexisgoiset6215]

He loves 8 so he flipped 8 for infinity.

[@pradox007]

No one going to talk out how he flipped 7 to make it a 9 (option 2 from the options screen 😊)

[@chenrayen]

My dyslexia: nooooo