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sltkrlast Wednesday at 11:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Weird parenthesization. The latin numbers are septem, octo, novem, decem for 7, 8, 9, 10. And then they all have a -ber suffix.


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amenghrayesterday at 7:39 AM

The three letter prefixes show up in English (eg oct in octal, dec in decimal, etc.).

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