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056 = LTRL Words and Half-Life Burns

A Problem Squared

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The Importance of Numbers in Language

In other languages, it's interesting how many times numbers or numerals are used instead of words. The longest one I could find is expediency, which is 10 letters long. In in Thai and a few other East Asian languages, the number five is used a lot.

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