So we get to hundred, then thousand up to hundred thousand, why would we use a thousand thousand for a million, or ten hundred thousand, or a hundred thousand thousand? A new word at each separator just makes easy parsing.

One hundred seventy three thousand million four hundred sixty two thousand four hundred twenty just sounds so much worse and harder to parser when hearing it.

In this house we use the word cactapi for the plural of cactus, largely to make fun of the silly way we are supposed to do it.

It’s worse, it’s a simulator for animals fights, like cock fighting and pitbull fighting. Japan still allows it irl.

Still not memorized. 7,8,9 still involve doing some quick count by number to get the answer (or using the finger trick for 9)