Re: Types of numerals
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 14:53 |
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Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> writes:
>
>>...
>>Sure, the "dozen", which is a unit of twelve. English also
>>has the "score", which also means 20 items.
..and the "gross" which means 144 (or a dozen dozens :)
Also a "grand gross" is 12x12x12 = 1728.
When I was a youngster, a "couple" invariably meant 'two, a group of
two'. But in contemporary usage it now more often means 'a few' - seems
to me a needless loss of precision.
--
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