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The Difference Between Decimal and Decimal in French Counting

In the seventeenth century, the academy francaise arrives on the scene. It was going to make a wonder dictionary with all the french words and usages. A man called vougelas is one of the people who is looking after this at this time. He integrates the vige system for numbers 70, 80 and 90 into the dictionary. But the videcimal system doesn't disappear. Actually, they kind of live in parallel. So what you have is a really hybrid and mixed system, which is what we have today.

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