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And every since has that poor kid believed that "Five hundred and one and one" was a valid number.

• Xophmeister 12y ago
  It kind-of-is, it's just not particularly well-formed/ambiguous linguistically.
  • GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago
    A bit like 99 in French: quatre-vingt-dix-neuf four twenties and ten and nine
    • eitland 12y ago
      I knew the Danes where counting in a crazy way but I didn't know the French did this as well. One more reason I'm happy English is the most common international language I guess.
      • iak8god 12y ago
        According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ago https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...
      • Xophmeister 12y ago
        Number systems by complexity: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html
• BenoitP 12y ago
  Peano says it is a valid number.
• deleted 12y ago
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