gwern comments on [FICTION] Hamlet and the Philosopher's Stone - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 10 November 2011 01:03:58AM 0 points [-]

Using Gutenberg's KJV, I get 111 hits for ' forty '; filtering 'forty and' (for numbers spelled out like 'forty and two') gets me 72. Filtering out 'days' and 'years', none of them seem to be the trope; so the Bible seems to use it solely for days and years, but not months, minutes, weeks, etc.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 November 2011 01:07:47AM 0 points [-]

Cool.