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A score = 20 years, so:4 x 20 = 8080 + 7 =8787Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address in 1863 and said "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." If you subtract 87 years from the year 1863, you get 1776; the year our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence.
My son just took this today and they said he should score a 72, but he scored a 74 and they said that was outstanding!
I think it's some American thing that said 4 score and whatever years ago. Because it was used in the same sentence as whatever years, the score refers to an amount of years. Score on its own means 20, but it does not have units attached.
Point zero eight seven three four. The numbers past the decimal point are said individually rather than a whole number like 'eight thousand, seven hundred and thirty four'
In French, "forty four" (44) is said "quarante-quatre".