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From: lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (A.H.L. Wassenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Endian wars
Message-ID: <172@wc8.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 31 Jan 89 08:34:56 GMT
References: <6133@columbia.edu> <186@aucsv.UUCP> <389@bilver.UUCP>
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In article <389@bilver.UUCP> bill@bilver.UUCP (bill vermillion) writes:

> To be consistant with the numbering scheme of 1 to 100 the numbers
> after nine should probably be  teen-zero or ten-zero, followed by

Do you think that is consistent? Is 20 in your language "two-zero"?
Or "twen-zero"? I think "onety" would be more consistent (considering
twenty, thirty, etc.).

> teen-one, teen-three, teen-four.  Using the "y" ending would be
> confusing if we called then   teenty-four of tenty-four.  Too much
> sound-alikes for the twentys.

These would become onety-one, onety-two [ you forgot that one :-) ],
onety-three, etc. All very consistent, and not more sound-alike than
the other ....-ty's.

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