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  2. Numbers: The Universal Language - Wikipedia

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    Numbers: The Universal Language (French: L'empire des nombres, lit. 'The Empire of Numbers') is a 1996 illustrated monograph on numbers and their history.Written by the French historian of science Denis Guedj, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 300th volume in their "Découvertes" collection [1] (known as "Abrams Discoveries" in the United States, and "New Horizons ...

  3. Georgian numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Georgian numerals are the system of number names used in Georgian, a language spoken in the country of Georgia.The Georgian numerals from 30 to 99 are constructed using a base-20 system, [1] [2] [3] similar to the scheme used in Basque, French for numbers 80 through 99, [4] or the notion of the score in English.

  4. French Braille - Wikipedia

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    This is the internationally recognized number system. However, in French Braille a new system, the Antoine braille digits, is used for mathematics and is recommended for all academic publications. This uses ⠠ combined with the first nine letters of the fourth decade, from ⠠ ⠡ for 1 to ⠠ ⠪ for 9 , with the preceding ⠠ ⠼ for 0 . The ...

  5. Des chiffres et des lettres - Wikipedia

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    Des chiffres et des lettres (French: [de ʃifʁ e de lɛtʁ]; "Numbers and Letters") is a French television programme which originally aired from 1965 to 2024. It was created by Armand Jammot and tests the numeracy skills and vocabulary of two contestants.

  6. French catheter scale - Wikipedia

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    The French scale measures the outer diameter of the catheter, not the size of the internal drainage channel (inner diameter). For instance, a two-way catheter of 20 Fr and a three-way catheter of 20 Fr have the same outer diameter, but the three-way catheter has an additional channel for irrigation, reducing the size of its drainage channel.

  7. Keno - Wikipedia

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    Most casinos allow paytable wagers of 1 through 20 numbers, but some limit the choice to only 1 through 10, 12 and 15 numbers, or "spots" as keno aficionados call the numbers selected. [ 10 ] The probability of a player hitting all 20 numbers on a 20 spot ticket is approximately 1 in 3.5 quintillion (1 in 3,535,316,142,212,174,320).

  8. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  9. Coded postal obliterators - Wikipedia

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    Town numbers between 1 and 4494 are documented. Town numbers from 3704 to 4018 and 4222 indicate use at a French Post office abroad. The "losange à gros chiffres" obliterator had numbers twice as big being nearly 8 millimeters tall. Since the overall size of the cancel remained the same, a larger portion of a large number obliterator consisted ...