• Tervell [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    8 months ago

    I’m not sure this is a real sub, I assumed it was just a joke. Pretty sure it’s a school room number, or I guess technically a class number (so, Grade 3, Class 2), so it’s definitely not meant to be read as the mathematical expression 3 - 2.

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      8 months ago

      so, Grade 3, Class 2)

      Could also mean floor 3, classroom 2. I think I recall Japan and other Asian countries count the ground floor as the 1st floor, do technically it would be 2-2 if we had japanese-style schools here in the u.s

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        8 months ago

        Nah. It’s grade three, class two. Could be elementary, middle, or high school grade three. That’s the way all the schools in Japan and Korea do it. Rooms with floor numbers that aren’t in schools are typically all one digit with no hyphen.