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Belgian French uses septante/nonante. Huitante would be a great addition.


I personally prefer octante. Septante and huitante sounds to much like just slapping -tante to 7 and 8. And just to be coherent, I would love to have heptante for 70.


"septante", "octante", "nonante" would be coherently based on Latin etymons, but if you want to coherently use "heptante", which relies on a Greek etymon, you should probably also use "ennéante" in lieu of "nonante".


In the context of hex numbers "quatre-vingt" isn't a problem tho, no ambiguity.




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