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by cperciva 213 days ago
"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".
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But the history of why we stuck to four-twenties sort of makes it worse.

We were allegedly headed to sanity but l'Academie was like "actually let's stick to soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix".

Good grief, it gets worse. It's half third [ordinal] times twenty, ½ #3 × 20.
That is so cursed.

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