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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