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Reply 23 of 97, by sunaiac

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In france we have it simple :
"Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six"

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Reply 29 of 97, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Empat-delapan-enam in Bahasa Indonesia, which translates into four-eight-six.

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Reply 30 of 97, by darksheer

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sunaiac wrote:

In france we have it simple :
"Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six"

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correction : "four hundred eighty six" in english 😁

Reply 31 of 97, by sunaiac

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darksheer wrote:
sunaiac wrote:

In france we have it simple :
"Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six"

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correction : "four hundred eighty six" in english 😁

That's belgian : quatre cent octante six 😀

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Reply 34 of 97, by foey

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Always said four-eight-six Come to think of it, don't think I've heard anyone say four-eighty-six in the UK 😀

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Reply 35 of 97, by collector

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In English you would go by the name that the company that designed it, i.e. Intel. That is four-eighty-six. This naming convention applies to all of the x86 line.

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Reply 36 of 97, by tincup

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sunaiac wrote:

In france we have it simple :
"Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six"

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Why not just "Quarante Huit Six" That's what I would have said if I had still lived there then!

Reply 37 of 97, by Auzner

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It started with 8008, which everyone called 80 oh 8. Then it carried to 8088 eighty eighty-eight, eighty eight-six, two eighty six, etc.

I'm wondering if that came from how the way the .30-06 (thirty aught-six) cartridge was referred to in speech. Or before that. IDK not a historical linguistics person.

Reply 38 of 97, by SarahWalker

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foey wrote:

Always said four-eight-six Come to think of it, don't think I've heard anyone say four-eighty-six in the UK 😀

Same here. I always assumed that 'four-eighty-six' was an Americanism, a bit like calling the NES 'en-ee-ess'.

Reply 39 of 97, by sunaiac

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tincup wrote:
sunaiac wrote:

In france we have it simple :
"Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six"

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Why not just "Quarante Huit Six" That's what I would have said if I had still lived there then!

I never met anyone saying it this way 😀

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