like i know it is to bring the translation closer to the latin and what the other romance translations HAVE been but it's still very eye-rolly to see people playing HA GOTCHA with holly lillies
i remember when I was little I wished there were an easy hack for remembering which was six and which was nine with my fists like there was for lowercase b and d
I never liked six or nine, although I liked the number nine more than six, because you could divide them easily and they were starting numbers before getting into the mess that was everything math. Or something.
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nine
the symbol for gemini or something
But you can see as well as I did that it is an excellent opportunity to mock the memetic use of the term "cancer".
;)
i found the 9 times table easy to memorize sequentially (unlike the 7s and 3s), but hard to randomly access (unlike the 5s and 11s)