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Some cultures counted in twenties - rather than the system based on tens that we use now.

Reminders from those times can be found in the use of "score" in English. Also, in French, for example, the numbers from 60-79, and from 80-99 are counted in twenties: 96, in words, is 80+16, not 90+6

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