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The_FD · 07-13-2005, 10:14 AM

I agree with you that french people don't even think of the complexity of their number when counting. It is just a word. What is difficult is not to count but to spell the numbers correctly

By the way, 90 ("quatre-vingt-dix") is not 2x40 + 10 but 4x20 + 10 in fact... a bit more complex

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