After the last one, I learned about a hundred, thousand, and a million. At this time I understood that you could have a million and one, and such, but I didn't know what came after 9,999,999. Embarrasingly, I somehow got it into my head that fazonga was the next number up, then after 99,999,999 (9 fazonga, 9 million, 999 thousand, 999) would be GAZONGA, which was actually a 100 million, then a billion would be a MAZONGA.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama
- I believe my mom had to pay like a million dollars for me to go to school— kelsorocksursocks
- when i was a child,i used to believe that a "million" is a big bag full of coins— Kafka
- I thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy