Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems fromconlangs)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 0:19 |
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:00:03PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> How far up do they do that? Do they go all the way to "nine and
> ninety"? What about "five and twenty and one hundred" for 125?
I would expect 125 to be "one hundred five and twenty". It's only the
units and tens that get swapped out of order in such systems,
at least from what I've seen.
-Mark