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I feel like they should count for less points in Nerd Sniping. https://xkcd.com/356/

But how many points in grammar trolling?

...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.

Less is used when you can't count the object discussed. Fewer is used when you can.

"I have 2 moneys" doesn't make sense, so you use "less money."

"I have 2 points" does make sense, so you use "fewer points."

I dunno...

"Fewer rational numbers" works, but "less real numbers" sounds funny.

I feel like I'm missing a joke here, but you can count real numbers ("the list contains 5 real numbers") therefore it's "fewer real numbers"

I can never remember a lot of those "X or Y" rules in grammar/English. Fewer or less, whom or who, etc.

Might be my own ignorance, might be my teachers growing up using trainwrecks like "yous" and "alls."