In the film "Fahrenheit 451" British schoolchildren can be heard chanting their times tables (e.g. "Nine sixteens are a hundred and forty-four, nine seventeens are a hundred and fifty-three", etc.). Was this system also used by the Australian schools (specifically in the fifties and sixties; character in question was born in 1954)? And how high
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The standard tables went from two to twelve, pre decimilisation, and at some point of which I'm not completely sure (But was certainly later than 1970) it became two to ten. You'll still find a good number of modern kids who know their elevens because they're easy, but practically no-one knows their twelves anymore. Randomness aside, I think much of the Western world used the same system - America, Australia, most of Europe...
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I thought America used kilometres and that?
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Americans: Refusing to be sensible since 1776.
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I used to work out the thirteen and fourteen times tables for my own amusement (because I liked maths in primary school) but we never had to learn anything above twelve.
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