>ninety-nine aka noventa-y-nueve is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

why do you think they've produced so many legendary mathematicians over the centuries?

>>78240055
Danes, Scotts, Anglos, Welsh, and Bretons have it too

It is a Celtic thing

>>78240302
Any historical reason for it? Who taught them math?

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>>78240302

>téléphone numbers are read in pairs of digits
>numbers beyond 69 are a pita to hear
>mfw the eternal Gaul strikes again against the foreign language néophyte

>>78240398
Well people counting on the market, from antiquity to the middle ages, used to count with their fingers or on simple bases, like 12 copper coins made a silver coin.
That's because they didn't know divisions and the conversion had to be easily divided (12 can be easily divided by 2, 3 or 4 whereas 10 is not)

When they saw 80 of something, they did not consider it as 8 x 10 but more easily as 4 piles of 20, which was surely more manageable by them.

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>>78240566
It all makes sense now

Danes are hiding from this thread, but I know.

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>>78240492
>are a pita to hear
sounds delicious desu

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>>78240492
SOIXANTE-DIX
SOIXANTE-ET-ONZE
SOIXANTE-DOUZE
SOIXANTE-TREIZE
SOIXANTE-QUATORZE
SOIXANTE-QUINZE
SOIXANTE-SE-ZE
SOIXANTE-DIX SEPT
SOIXANTE-DIX-HUIT
SOIXANTE-DIX-NEUF
QUATRE-VINGT
QUATRE-VINGT-UN

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>>78241068
>mfw double checking the number and writing it down while the audio just keeps blasting numbers quickly and leaves me behind.

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>he doesn't say septante and nonante

>>78242290
wtf I love Belgique now

>>78242290
Proof Walloons are honorary Germanics

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>>78241068
SOIXANTE-SEIZE
SOIXANTE-DIX-SEPT

Fixed


>>78242106
As a French, i must admit that the Belgian system (septante, octante, nonante) is superior to ours