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It's a rather archaic way to say 45. Think of it as five plus forty.

This construction is used in the English nursery rhyme, "Sing a Song of Sixpence":

Sing a song of sixpence,

A pocket full of rye.

Four and twenty Blackbirds

Baked in a pie.

That is, there were 24 blackbirds baked in the pie.

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