▲ 773 ▼ quatre-vingts (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by Creazle@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 89 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) I think this actually roots in the problems of conversion to base ten from base twelve. Not sure though, maybe I remembered this wrong. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DarthCluck@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Being lazy and not going to look it up. I can't help it to wonder if it's also based in Sumerian's base 60 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] monsieur_jean@kbin.social 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) It's base 20. 80 in French is 4 x 20. A long time ago, 60 was "trois-vingt", 3 x 20. We still have a hospital in Paris called "Hopital des Quinze-Vingts", 15 x 20 because it used to have 300 beds. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Oh, neat! Thanks for clearing this up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DarthCluck@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Being lazy and not going to look it up. I can't help it to wonder if it's also based in Sumerian's base 60 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] monsieur_jean@kbin.social 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) It's base 20. 80 in French is 4 x 20. A long time ago, 60 was "trois-vingt", 3 x 20. We still have a hospital in Paris called "Hopital des Quinze-Vingts", 15 x 20 because it used to have 300 beds. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Oh, neat! Thanks for clearing this up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] monsieur_jean@kbin.social 8 points 3 years ago (1 child) It's base 20. 80 in French is 4 x 20. A long time ago, 60 was "trois-vingt", 3 x 20. We still have a hospital in Paris called "Hopital des Quinze-Vingts", 15 x 20 because it used to have 300 beds. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Oh, neat! Thanks for clearing this up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Oh, neat! Thanks for clearing this up. permalink fedilink source parent
