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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:

> On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 8:37:00 PM UTC, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> I suspect you'd spend a great deal of time explaining to the French
>> that their numbering system is inefficient, and the Swiss-French
>> version is much more logical -- *as if they weren't already perfectly
>> aware of that*.
> Just as in English we used to say "five score and ten", or "two dozen".
> You'll still occasionally hear the latter, but the first is now pretty
> archaic. In French they've kept "fourscore" in general use.

When it comes to visesimal number systems, the French are amateurs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_numerals