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Linguistic Note on $10$ (ten)
Words derived from or associated with the number $10$ include:
- decade: a period of $10$ years
- decimal: a system of counting in $10$s
- decimate: to execute every $10$th man in line
Sources
- 1996: John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy: The Book of Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: The Romance of Numbers: Number Words