Re: Other bases was Re: Numbers from 1-10

Andrew Patterson wrote:
>
> There is also the "score" =20 although this seems to have almost passed
out
> of use, it was certainly used in counting historically.
So much so that I'd suspect that Americans today, when asked about
Abraham Lincoln's speech ("Four score and seven years ago, . . .", 1863),
would have a hard time explaining what that means.

--Phillip Driscoll

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