Re:Byte Ordering: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace (1980)
by linguae on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:42AM
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If I remember correctly, I believe French’s vigesimal system is a vestige from the non-Romance language spoken in France before Latin was introduced there. French isn’t the only language with vigesimal elements; English has the word “score,” made most famous by Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (“four score and seven years ago…”).
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