Geneviève Guitel

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Geneviève Guitel is a French mathematician. She is well-known for her usage of the terms échelle courte and échelle longue (short scale and long scale respectively) to refer to the main numbering systems used around the world.

Her publications include:

(French) "Histoire comparée des numérations écrites", Geneviève Guitel, Éd. Flammarion, Paris, 1975 ISBN 10-2082111040 and ISBN 13-978-2082111041

In the above document, on p. 51-52, also p. 566-574, the chapter "Les grands nombres en numération parlée" (English: The large numbers in oral numeration), she made the first attested use of the terms échelle courte – échelle longue.

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