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  • The French for eighty is quatre-vingts, or four-twenties, indicating that ancestors of the French once used a base twenty system.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The French for eighty is quatre-vingts, or four-twenties, indicating that ancestors of the French once used a base twenty system.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The French for eighty is quatre-vingts, or four-twenties, indicating that ancestors of the French once used a base twenty system.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • Par exemple: Ce garçon est beau, mais il essaie trop d'atteindre l'apparance des punks britanniques pendant les années quatre-vingts.

    qbird Diary Entry qbird 2004

  • A cette embouchure des deux rivi鑢es le Turc tient habituellement quatre-vingts ou cent fustes, galiottes et gripperies, pour passer, en temps de guerre, sa cavalerie et son arm閑.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Il me tint fid鑜e compagnie, et me mena le soir passer la nuit dans un de leurs camps, qui pouvoit avoir quatre-vingts et quelques tentes, rang閑s en forme de rues.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • En ce debut des annees quatre-vingts nous devons prendre conscience que le Canada a beaucoup evolue et qu'il n'y a qu'un seul parti qui soit resolument engage dans la voie du changement: c'est le parti progressif conservateur.

    The Challenges of Change 1980

  • It is therefore not surprising that decimal systems are widespread among the spoken number sequences, or that they are mixed with vigesi - mal elements, as we see in French: dix vingt trente quarante cinquante soixante soixante-dix quatre-vingts (four times twenty) quatre-vingt-dix cent

    NUMBER CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA 1968

  • Poudre aux yeux (Heath); Verne's Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Heath); Balzac's Eugenie Grandet (Holt); French Short

    The University of Virginia Record 1909

  • The French language uses 20 as a base for counting between 70 and 100; hence 80 is quatre-vingts "four-twenties".

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

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