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Maurice Gross, « Les déterminants numéraux, un exemple : les dates horaires », Langages, ID : 10.3406/lgge.2002.905
Numeral determiners (noted Dnum) are used together with names of units (NUnit) to indicate quantities of varied kinds (e.g. two hundred square meters, one thousand Francs, 1 000 F). Rules that lead to noun phrases of the type Dnum Nunit obey various constraints, among others, the rules of numeration in the decimal system.