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Why the numbers 6-7 are driving math teachers up the wall

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14 points ikeashark | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
1. ziml77 ◴[20 Oct 25 19:40 UTC] No.45648284[source]▶
One person I was talking to said they assumed that 67 is derived from the longstanding funny number: 69. I think that actually makes perfect sense because 7 ate 9.