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I am not sure it's fair to include Canada in the same basket. We don't use freedom degrees, we know that numbers should start with the most significant digits and I believe liability waivers have no value here as well.



I did respond to another comment. The punctuation was very much on purpose, "+Canada", w/o the leading space to denote that there is a separation.


> numbers should start with the most significant digits

Am curious: where does that not happen in the US?

(And in parts of Canada they say 4-20-10 to mean 90 :-)


4-20-10 (quatre vingt dix) is weird for non-French speakers, as "siedemdziesiat" is weird to non-Polish speakers, or any other word in a foreign language.

To us French this is a word like others, it's not like we are calculating in our heads. Belgians have "septante" which is more logical but they do not calculate either.


I know I am in Quebec and speak French. I would prefer the Belgian way of octante/nonante. L.

It happens with dates and makes them unsortable.




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