how is eighteen hundredths written in standard form ?

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The number 459,608 converted to standard form is 4.59608 x 10 5 Example: Convert 0.000380 to Standard Form Move the decimal 4 places to the right and remove leading zeros to get 3.80 a = 3.80 We moved the decimal to the right so b is negative b = -4 The number 0.000380 converted to standard form is 3.80 x 10 -4

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How do you write three and eighteen hundredths in standard form …
You write one and sixty three hundredths in standard form as 1.63 × 100The standard notation is 1.63 How do you write three hundredths in standard form? Three hundredths (0.03)…

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The trick is to break the number up into blocks of three. We’ll use 3251469 as an example. Once we break it up, it becomes 3,251,469. (Similarly, 14000 becomes 14,000 and 543 remains as it is.) Now we put each group into words individually. We simply get three from 3, two hundred fifty-one from 251 and four hundred sixty-nine from 469.

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How do you write 4 hundredths in standard form? It would actually be 0.04. The first number behind the decimal is tenths, the second one is hundredths, and third is thousandths. So 0.004 is four thousandths. whoops worry. 🙂.

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How do you write fifty-eight and twenty-one hundredths in standard form …
How do you you write eighteen hundredths in standard form? You write three and eighteen hundredths (3.18) in standard form as: 3.18 × 100

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Converting from number word form to standard number notation: 16.76 trillion = 16.76 x 10 12 = 16,760,000,000,000 If you need to say the number 16,760,000,000,000 you would say, sixteen trillion, seven hundred sixty billion.

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How do u write two and fifty nine hundredths in standard form
the first number after the decimal point is tenths place second number after the decimal point is hundredths place fifty nine hundredths can be written as 0.59 two and fifty nine hundredths is written as 2 + 0.59 two and fifty nine hundredths in standard form is 2.59 Advertisement Advertisement New questions in Mathematics

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What is eighteen and thirty-four hundredths written as a decimal?
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Step-by-step explanation: Just look at the part where it says hundredths or has the ths and youl know how to write it. However, not all types of standard forms are the same some have and in them and that means that you should put a decimal point. Advertisement.

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Write 5,325 in Expanded Number Form. Standard Form: 5,325 Expanded Form: 5,000 + 300 + 20 + 5 = 5,325 Expanded Factors Form: (5 × 1,000) + (3 × 100) + (2 × 10) + (5 × 1) = 5,325 Expanded Exponential Form: (5 × 10 3) + (3 × 10 2) + (2 × 10 1) + (5 × 10 0) = 5,325 Word Form: five thousand, three hundred twenty-five

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Contents
1 Cardinal numbers
1.1 Very large numbers
2 Special names
3 Multiplicative adverbs and adjectives
4 Negative numbers
5 Ordinal numbers
6 Dates
7 Collective numbers
8 Fractions and decimals
9 Whether or not digits or words are used
10 Empty numbers
11 See also
12 References
13 External links
Cardinal numbers[edit]
Cardinal numbers refer to the size of a group. In English, these words are numerals.
0 zero (nought) 10 ten
1 one 11 eleven
2 two 12 twelve (a dozen) 20 twenty
3 three 13 thirteen (a baker’s dozen) 30 thirty
4 four 14 fourteen 40 forty
5 five 15 fifteen 50 fifty
6 six 16 sixteen 60 sixty
7 seven 17 seventeen 70 seventy
8 eight 18 eighteen 80 eighty
9 nine 19 nineteen 90 ninety
If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and the second digit is not zero, the number is typically written as two words separated by a hyphen.
21 twenty-one
25 twenty-five
32 thirty-two
58 fifty-eight
64 sixty-four
79 seventy-nine
83 eighty-three
99 ninety-nine
In English, the hundreds are perfectly regular, except that the word hundred remains in its singular form regardless of the number preceding it.
100 one hundred
200 two hundred
… …
900 nine hundred
So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word thousand. For the number one thousand it may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000, for larger numbers they are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of human reading[example needed]. The use of the , as a separator is avoided in some languages[citation needed] as it is used for a decimal placement, for example with money[citation needed]. As a result some style guides[example needed] recommend avoidance of the comma (,) as a separator and only to use the period (.) as a decimal placement. Thus a half would be written 0.5 in decimal, base ten notation, and fifty thousand as 50 000, and not 50.000 nor 50,000 nor 50000. As the English language has no language academy to make usage correct there is still a wide variety of usage, other languages do have language academies which ruled on these matters[example needed], yet their rulings are deprecated by international standards like the SI system or EU recommendations[example needed] which leads to varied usage.
1,000 one thousand
2,000 two thousand
… …
10,000 ten thousand or (rarely used) a myriad, which usually means an indefinitely large number.
11,000 eleven thousand
… …
20,000 twenty thousand
21,000 twenty-one thousand
30,000 thirty thousand
85,000 eighty-five thousand
100,000 one hundred thousand or one lakh (Indian English)
999,000 nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand (inclusively British English, Irish English, Australian English, and New Zealand English)
nine hundred ninety-nine thousand (American English)
1,000,000 one million
10,000,000 ten million or one crore (Indian English)
In American usage, four-digit numbers are often named using multiples of hundred and combined with tens and ones: eleven hundred three, twelve hundred twenty-five, forty-seven hundred forty-two, or ninety-nine hundred ninety-nine. In British usage, this style is common for multiples of 100 between 1,000 and 2,000 (e.g. 1,500 as fifteen hundred) but not for higher numbers.
Americans may pronounce four-digit numbers with non-zero tens and ones as pairs of two-digit numbers without saying hundred and inserting oh for zero tens: twenty-six fifty-nine or forty-one oh five. This usage probably evolved from the distinctive usage for years; nineteen-eighty-one, or from four-digit numbers used in the American telephone numbering system which were originally two letters followed by a number followed by a four-digit number, later by a three-digit number followed by the four-digit number. It is avoided for numbers less than 2500 if the context may mean confusion with time of day: ten ten or twelve oh four.
Intermediate numbers are read differently depending on their use. Their typical naming occurs when the numbers are used for counting. Another way is for when they are used as labels. The second column method is used much more often in American English than British English. The third column is used in British English but rarely in American English (although the use of the second and third columns is not necessarily directly interchangeable between the two regional variants). In other words, British English and American English can seemingly agree, but it depends on a specific situation (in this example, bus numbers).[citation needed]
Common British vernacular Common American vernacular Common British vernacular
How many marbles do you have? What is your house number? Which bus goes to the High Street?
101 A hundred and one. One-oh-one.
Here, oh is used for the digit zero. One-oh-one.
109 A hundred and nine. One-oh-nine. One-oh-nine.
110 A hundred and ten. One-ten. One-one-oh.
117 A hundred and seventeen. One-seventeen. One-one-seven.
120 A hundred and twenty. One-twenty. One-two-oh, One-two-zero.
152 A hundred and fifty-two. One-fifty-two. One-five-two.
208 Two hundred and eight. Two-oh-eight. Two-oh-eight.
394 Three hundred and ninety-four. Three-ninety-four. Three-ninety-four. or Three-nine-four.
Note: When a cheque (or check) is written, the number 100 is always written one hundred. It is never a hundred.
In American English, many students are taught[example needed],[citation needed] not to use the word and anywhere in the whole part of a number, so it is not used before the tens and ones. It is instead used as a verbal delimiter when dealing with compound numbers. Thus, instead of three hundred and seventy-three, three hundred seventy-three would be said. Despite this rule, some Americans use the and in reading numbers containing tens and ones as an alternative variant.
Very large numbers[edit]
For numbers above a million, three main systems name numbers in English (for the use of prefixes such as kilo- for a thousand, mega- for a million, milli- for a thousandth, etc. see SI units):
the long scale (formerly used in British English but now less so) designates a system of numeric names in which a thousand million is called a milliard, and billion is used for a million million. This system is still used in several other European languages.
the short scale (always used in American English and almost invariably in British English) designates a system of numeric names in which a thousand million is called a billion, and the word milliard is not used.
the Indian numbering system, used widely in Indian subcontinent.
Many people have no direct experience of manipulating numbers this large, and many non-American readers may interpret billion as 1012 (even if they are young enough to have been taught otherwise at school); moreover, usage of the long billion is standard in some non-English speaking countries. For these reasons, defining the word may be advisable when writing for the public.
Number notation Power
notation Short scale Long scale Indian
(or South Asian) English
1,000,000 106 one million one million ten lakh
1,000,000,000 109 one billion
a thousand million one milliard
a thousand million one hundred crore
(one arab)
1,000,000,000,000 1012 one trillion
a thousand billion one billion
a million million one lakh crore
(ten kharab)
1,000,000,000,000,000 1015 one quadrillion
a thousand trillion one billiard
a thousand billion ten crore crore
(one padm)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 1018 one quintillion
a thousand quadrillion one trillion
a million billion ten thousand crore crore
(ten shankh)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 1021 one sextillion
a thousand quintillion one trilliard
a thousand trillion one crore crore crore
The numbers past one trillion in the short scale, in ascending powers of 1000, are as follows: quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion, quindecillion, sexdecillion, septendecillion, octodecillion, novemdecillion and vigintillion (which is 10 to the 63rd power, or a one followed by 63 zeros). The highest number in this series listed in modern dictionaries is centillion, which is 10 to the 303rd power.[1] The interim powers of one thousand between vigintillion and centillion do not have standardized names, nor do any higher powers, but there are many ad hoc extensions in use. The highest number listed in Robert Munafo’s table of such unofficial names[2] is milli-millillion, which was coined as a name for 10 to the 3,000,003rd power.
The googolplex was often cited as the largest named number in English. If a googol is ten to the one hundredth power, then a googolplex is one followed by a googol of zeros (that is, ten to the power of a googol).[3] There is the coinage, of very little use, of ten to the googolplex power, of the word googolplexplex.
The terms arab, kharab, padm and shankh are more commonly found in old books on Indian mathematics.
Here are some approximate composite large numbers in American English:
Quantity Written Pronounced
1,200,000 1.2 million one point two million
3,000,000 3 million three million
250,000,000 250 million two hundred fifty million
6,400,000,000 6.4 billion six point four billion
23,380,000,000 23.38 billion twenty-three point three eight billion
Often, large numbers are written with (preferably non-breaking) half-spaces or thin spaces separating the thousands (and, sometimes, with normal spaces or apostrophes) instead of commas—to ensure that confusion is not caused in countries where a decimal comma is used. Thus, a million is often written 1 000 000.
In some areas, a point (. or ·) may also be used as a thousands separator, but then the decimal separator must be a comma (,). In English the point (.) is used as the decimal separator, and the comma (,) as the thousands separator.
Special names[edit]
See also: Number prefix § Table of number prefixes in English, and Anniversary § Anniversary names
Some numbers have special names in addition to their regular names, most depending on context.
0:
zero: formal scientific usage
nought: mostly British usage, common in science to refer to subscript 0 indicating an initial state
naught: archaic term for nothingness, which may or may not be equivalent to the number; mostly American usage, old-fashioned spelling of nought
aught: proscribed but still occasionally used when a digit is 0 (as in thirty-aught-six, the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and by association guns that fire it). Aughts also refers to the decade of 2000-2009 in American English.
oh: used when spelling numbers (like telephone, bank account, bus line [British: bus route]) but can cause confusion with the letter o if reading a mix of numbers and letters
nil: in general sport scores, British usage (The score is two–nil.)
nothing: in general sport scores, American usage (The score is two–nothing.)
null: to an object or idea related to nothingness. The 0th aleph number (
) is pronounced aleph-null.
love: in tennis, badminton, squash and similar sports (origin disputed, said by the Oxford English Dictionary to be from the idea that when one does a thing for love, that is for no monetary gain, the word love implies nothing. The previously held belief that it originated from French: l’œuf, lit. ’the egg’, due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted)
zilch, nada (from Spanish), zip: used informally when stressing nothingness; this is true especially in combination with one another (You know nothing—zero, zip, nada, zilch!); American usage
nix: also used as a verb; mostly American usage
cypher / cipher: archaic, from French chiffre, in turn from Arabic sifr, meaning zero
goose egg (informal)
duck (used in cricket when a batsman is dismissed without scoring)
blank the half of a domino tile with no pips
1:
ace in certain sports and games, as in tennis or golf, indicating success with one stroke, and the face of a die, playing card or domino half with one pip
birdie in golf denotes one stroke less than par, and bogey, one stroke more than par
solo
unit
linear the degree of a polynomial is 1; also for explicitly denoting the first power of a unit: linear metre
unity in mathematics
protagonist first actor in theatre of Ancient Greece, similarly Proto-Isaiah and proton
2:
couple
brace, from Old French arms (the plural of arm), as in what can be held in two arms.
pair
deuce the face of a die, playing card or domino half with two pips
eagle in golf denotes two strokes less than par
duo
quadratic the degree of a polynomial is 2
also square or squared for denoting the second power of a unit: square metre or metre squared
penultimate, second from the end
deuteragonist second actor in theatre of Ancient Greece, similarly Deutero-Isaiah and deuteron
3:
trey the face of a die or playing card with three pips, a three-point field goal in basketball, nickname for the third carrier of the same personal name in a family
trio
trips: three-of-a-kind in a poker hand. a player has three cards with the same numerical value
cubic the degree of a polynomial is 3
also cube or cubed for denoting the third power of a unit: cubic metre or metre cubed
albatross in golf denotes three strokes less than par. Sometimes called double eagle
hat-trick or hat trick: achievement of three feats in sport or other contexts[4]
antepenultimate third from the end
tritagonist third actor in theatre of Ancient Greece, similarly Trito-Isaiah and triton
turkey in bowling, three consecutive strikes
4:
cater: (rare) the face of a die or playing card with four pips
quartet
quartic or biquadratic the degree of a polynomial is 4
quad (short for quadruple or the like) several specialized sets of four, such as four of a kind in poker, a carburetor with four inputs, etc.,
condor in golf denotes four strokes less than par
preantepenultimate fourth from the end
5:
cinque or cinq (rare) the face of a die or playing card with five pips
quintet
nickel (informal American, from the value of the five-cent US nickel, but applied in non-monetary references)
quintic the degree of a polynomial is 5
quint (short for quintuplet or the like) several specialized sets of five, such as quintuplets, etc.
6:
half a dozen
sice (rare) the face of a die or playing card with six pips
sextet
sextic or hectic the degree of a polynomial is 6
7:
septet
septic or heptic the degree of a polynomial is 7
8:
octet
9:
nonet
10:
dime (informal American, from the value of the ten-cent US dime, but applied in non-monetary references)
decet
decade, used for years but also other groups of 10 as in rosary prayers or Braille symbols
11: a banker’s dozen
12: a dozen (first power of the duodecimal base), used mostly in commerce
13: a baker’s dozen
20: a score (first power of the vigesimal base), nowadays archaic; famously used in the opening of the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago… The Number of the Beast in the King James Bible is rendered Six hundred threescore and six. Also in The Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 90 as used in the Burial Service—The days of our age are threescore years and ten; ….
50: half-century, literally half of a hundred, usually used in cricket scores.
55: double-nickel (informal American)
60: a shock: historical commercial count, described as three scores.[5]
100:
A century, also used in cricket scores and in cycling for 100 miles.
A ton, in Commonwealth English, the speed of 100 mph[6] or 100 km/h.
A small hundred or short hundred (archaic, see 120 below)
120:
A great hundred or long hundred (twelve tens; as opposed to the small hundred, i.e. 100 or ten tens), also called small gross (ten dozens), both archaic
Also sometimes referred to as duodecimal hundred, although that could literally also mean 144, which is twelve squared
144: a gross (a dozen dozens, second power of the duodecimal base), used mostly in commerce
500: a ream
1000:
a grand, colloquially used especially when referring to money, also in fractions and multiples, e.g. half a grand, two grand, etc. Grand can also be shortened to G in many cases.
K, originally from the abbreviation of kilo-, e.g. He only makes $20K a year.
Millennium (plural: millennia), a period of one thousand years.
kilo- (Greek for one thousand), a decimal unit prefix in the Metric system denoting multiplication by one thousand. For example: 1 kilometre = 1000 metres.
1728: a great gross (a dozen gross, third power of the duodecimal base), used historically in commerce
10,000: a myriad (a hundred hundred), commonly used in the sense of an indefinite very high number
100,000: a lakh (a hundred thousand), in Indian English
10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000.
10100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics
10googol: googolplex (1 followed by a googol of zeros)
10googolplex: googolplexplex (1 followed by a googolplex of zeros)
Combinations of numbers in most sports scores are read as in the following examples:
1–0 British English: one-nil; American English: one-nothing, one-zip, or one-zero
0–0 British English: nil-nil or nil all; American English: zero-zero or nothing-nothing, (occasionally scoreless or no score)
2–2 two-two or two all; American English also twos, two to two, even at two, or two up.
Naming conventions of Tennis scores (and related sports) are different from other sports.
The centuries of Italian culture have names in English borrowed from Italian:
duecento (one thousand and) two hundred for the years 1200 to 1299, or approximately 13th century
trecento 14th century
quattrocento 15th century
cinquecento 16th century
seicento 17th century
settecento 18th century
ottocento 19th century
novecento 20th century
When reading numbers in a sequence, such as a telephone or serial number, British people will usually use the terms double followed by the repeated number. Hence 007 is double oh seven. Exceptions are the emergency telephone number 999, which is always nine nine nine and the apocalyptic Number of the Beast, which is always six six six. In the US, 911 (the US emergency telephone number) is usually read nine one one, while 9/11 (in reference to the September 11, 2001, attacks) is usually read nine eleven.
Multiplicative adverbs and adjectives[edit]
A few numbers have specialised multiplicative numbers (adverbs), also called adverbial numbers, which express how many times some event happens:
one time once
two times twice
three times thrice
(largely obsolete)
Compare these specialist multiplicative numbers to express how many times some thing exists (adjectives):
× 1 solitary singular one-off
× 2 double twofold duplicate
× 3 triple threefold triplicate
× 4 quadruple fourfold
× 5 quintuple fivefold
× 6 sextuple, hextuple sixfold
× 7 septuple, heptuple sevenfold
×100 ….. hundredfold
English also has some multipliers and distributive numbers, such as singly.
Other examples are given in the Specialist Numbers.
Negative numbers[edit]
The name of a negative number is the name of the corresponding positive number preceded by minus or (American English) negative. Thus −5.2 is minus five point two or negative five point two. For temperatures, North Americans colloquially say below—short for below zero—so a temperature of −5° is five below (in contrast, for example, to two above for 2°). This is occasionally used for emphasis when referring to several temperatures or ranges both positive and negative. This is particularly common in Canada where the use of Celsius in weather forecasting means that temperatures can regularly drift above and below zero at certain times of year.
Ordinal numbers[edit]
See also: Numbering of storeys in buildings
See also: Ordinal numeral
Ordinal numbers refer to a position in a series. Common ordinals include:
0th zeroth or (rarely) noughth (see below) 10th tenth
1st first 11th eleventh
2nd second 12th twelfth 20th twentieth
3rd third 13th thirteenth 30th thirtieth
4th fourth 14th fourteenth 40th fortieth
5th fifth 15th fifteenth 50th fiftieth
6th sixth 16th sixteenth 60th sixtieth
7th seventh 17th seventeenth 70th seventieth
8th eighth 18th eighteenth 80th eightieth
9th ninth 19th nineteenth 90th ninetieth
Zeroth only has a meaning when counting starts with zero, which happens in a mathematical or computer science context. Ordinal numbers predate the invention of zero and positional notation.
Ordinal numbers such as 21st, 33rd, etc., are formed by combining a cardinal ten with an ordinal unit.
21st twenty-first
25th twenty-fifth
32nd thirty-second
58th fifty-eighth
64th sixty-fourth
79th seventy-ninth
83rd eighty-third
99th ninety-ninth
Higher ordinals are not often written in words, unless they are round numbers (thousandth, millionth, billionth). They are written with digits and letters as described below. Some rules should be borne in mind.
The suffixes -th, -st, -nd and -rd are occasionally written superscript above the number itself.
If the tens digit of a number is 1, then th is written after the number. For example: 13th, 19th, 112th, 9,311th.
If the tens digit is not equal to 1, then the following table could be used:
If the units digit is: 0 1 2 3 4-9
This is written after the number th st nd rd th
For example: 2nd, 7th, 20th, 23rd, 52nd, 135th, 301st.
These ordinal abbreviations are actually hybrid contractions of a numeral and a word. 1st is 1 + st from first. Similarly, nd is used for second and rd for third. In the legal field and in some older publications, the ordinal abbreviation for second and third is simply d.
For example: 42d, 33d, 23d.
NB: D still often denotes second and third in the numeric designations of units in the US armed forces, for example, 533d Squadron, and in legal citations for the second and third series of case reporters.
Dates[edit]
See also: Calendar date
There are a number of ways to read years. The following table offers a list of valid pronunciations and alternate pronunciations for any given year of the Gregorian calendar.
Year Most common pronunciation method Alternative methods
1 BC (The year) One BC (The year) One BCE[note 1]
1 The year One (The year) One CE[note 2]
AD One[note 3]
235 Two thirty-five Two-three-five
Two hundred (and) thirty-five
911 Nine eleven Nine-one-one
Nine hundred (and) eleven
999 Nine ninety-nine Nine-nine-nine
Nine hundred (and) ninety-nine
1000 One thousand Ten hundred
1K
1004 One thousand (and) four Ten oh-four
1010 Ten ten One thousand (and) ten
1050 Ten fifty One thousand (and) fifty
1225 Twelve twenty-five One-two-two-five
One thousand, two hundred (and) twenty-five
Twelve-two-five
1900 Nineteen hundred One thousand, nine hundred
Nineteen aught
1901 Nineteen oh-one Nineteen hundred (and) one
One thousand, nine hundred (and) one
Nineteen aught one
1919 Nineteen nineteen Nineteen hundred (and) nineteen
One thousand, nine hundred (and) nineteen
1999 Nineteen ninety-nine Nineteen hundred (and) ninety-nine
One thousand, nine hundred (and) ninety-nine
2000 Two thousand Twenty hundred
Two triple-oh
Y2K
2001 Two thousand (and) one Twenty oh-one
Twenty hundred (and) one
Two double-oh-one
Two oh-oh-one
2009 Two thousand (and) nine Twenty oh-nine
Twenty hundred (and) nine
Two double-oh-nine
Two oh-oh-nine
2010 Twenty ten[7] Twenty hundred (and) ten
two-oh-one-oh
Two thousand (and) ten
^ Before the Common era.
^ of the Common era.
^ Anno Domini One (In the year One of our Lord) is sometimes written 1 AD.
Twelve thirty-four would be the norm on both sides of the Atlantic for the year 1234. The years 2000 to 2009 are most often read as two thousand, two thousand (and) one and the like by both British and American speakers. For years after 2009, twenty eleven, twenty fourteen, etc. are more common, even in years earlier than 2009 BC/BCE. Likewise, the years after 1009 (until 1099) are also read in the same manner (e.g. 1015 is either ten fifteen or, rarely, one thousand fifteen). Some Britons read years within the 1000s to 9000s BC/BCE in the American manner, that is, 1234 BC is read as twelve (hundred and) thirty-four BC, while 2400 BC can be read as either two thousand four hundred or twenty four hundred BC.
Collective numbers[edit]
Collective numbers are numbers that refer to a group of a specific size. Words like pair and dozen are common in English, though most are formally derived from Greek and Latin numerals, as follows:
Group Size Latin-derived Colloquial
1 monad
2 dyad, duad pair
3 triad
4 tetrad
5 pentad
6 hexad
7 heptad, hebdomad
8 octad, ogdoad
9 nonad, ennead
10 decad, decade
11 hendecad
12 dodecad, duodecade dozen
1000 chiliad
Fractions and decimals[edit]
See also: Fraction (mathematics) § Vocabulary, and List of numbers § Fractional numbers
Numbers used to denote the denominator of a fraction are known linguistically as partitive numerals. In spoken English, ordinal numerals and partitive numerals are identical with a few exceptions. Thus fifth can mean the element between fourth and sixth, or the fraction created by dividing the unit into five pieces. When used as a partitive numeral, these forms can be pluralized: one seventh, two sevenths. The sole exceptions to this rule are division by one, two, and sometimes four: first and second cannot be used for a fraction with a denominator of one or two. Instead, whole and half (plural halves) are used. For a fraction with a denominator of four, either fourth or quarter may be used.
Here are some common English fractions, or partitive numerals:[8]
one one-hundredth
two one-hundredths
three one-hundredths
one two-hundredth
two two-hundredths
three two-hundredths
one-sixteenth
or 0.1 one-tenth
one-eighth
or 0.2 two-tenths or one-fifth
one-quarter or one-fourth
or 0.3 three-tenths
one-third
three-eighths
or 0.4 four-tenths or two-fifths
one-half
or 0.6 six-tenths or three-fifths
five-eighths
two-thirds
or 0.7 seven-tenths
three-quarters or three-fourths
or 0.8 eight-tenths or four-fifths
seven-eighths
or 0.9 nine-tenths
fifteen-sixteenths
Alternatively, and for greater numbers, one may say for 1/2 one over two, for 5/8 five over eight, and so on. This over form is also widely used in mathematics.
Fractions together with an integer are read as follows:
1½ is one and a half
6¼ is six and a quarter
7⅝ is seven and five eighths
A space is required between the whole number and the fraction; however, if a special fraction character is used like ½, then the space can be done without, e.g.
9 1/2
9½
Numbers with a decimal point may be read as a cardinal number, then and, then another cardinal number followed by an indication of the significance of the second cardinal number (mainly U.S.); or as a cardinal number, followed by point, and then by the digits of the fractional part. The indication of significance takes the form of the denominator of the fraction indicating division by the smallest power of ten larger than the second cardinal. This is modified when the first cardinal is zero, in which case neither the zero nor the and is pronounced, but the zero is optional in the point form of the fraction.
Some American and Canadian schools teach students to pronounce decimaly written fractions (for example, .5) as though they were longhand fractions (five tenths), such as thirteen and seven tenths for 13.7. This formality is often dropped in common speech and is steadily disappearing in instruction in mathematics and science as well as in international American schools. In the U.K., and among most North Americans, 13.7 would be read thirteen point seven.
For example:
0.002 is point zero zero two, point oh oh two, nought point zero zero two, etc.; or two thousandths (U.S., occasionally)
3.1416 is three point one four one six
99.3 is ninety-nine point three; or ninety-nine and three tenths (U.S., occasionally).
In English the decimal point was originally printed in the center of the line (0·002), but with the advent of the typewriter it was placed at the bottom of the line, so that a single key could be used as a full stop/period and as a decimal point. In many non-English languages a full-stop/period at the bottom of the line is used as a thousands separator with a comma being used as the decimal point.
Whether or not digits or words are used[edit]
With few exceptions, most grammatical texts rule that the numbers zero to nine inclusive should be written out – instead of 1 and 2, one would write one and two.[9]
Example: I have two apples. (Preferred)
Example: I have 2 apples.
After nine, one can head straight back into the 10, 11, 12, etc., although some write out the numbers until twelve.
Example: I have 28 grapes. (Preferred)
Example: I have twenty-eight grapes.
Another common usage is to write out any number that can be expressed as one or two words, and use figures otherwise.
Examples:
There are six million dogs. (Preferred)
There are 6,000,000 dogs.
That is one hundred and twenty-five oranges. (British English)
That is one hundred twenty-five oranges. (US-American English)
That is 125 oranges. (Preferred)
Numbers at the beginning of a sentence should also be written out, or the sentence rephrased.
The above rules are not always followed. In literature, larger numbers might be spelled out. On the other hand, digits might be more commonly used in technical or financial articles, where many figures are discussed. In particular, the two different forms should not be used for figures that serve the same purpose; for example, it is inelegant to write, Between day twelve and day 15 of the study, the population doubled.
Empty numbers[edit]
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Colloquial English’s small vocabulary of empty numbers can be employed when there is uncertainty as to the precise number to use, but it is desirable to define a general range: specifically, the terms umpteen, umpty, and zillion. These are derived etymologically from the range affixes:
-teen (designating the range as being between 13 and 19 inclusive)
-ty (designating the range as being between 20 and 90 inclusive)
-illion (designating the range as being above 1,000,000; or, more generally, as being extremely large).
The prefix ump- is added to the first two suffixes to produce the empty numbers umpteen and umpty: it is of uncertain origin. A noticeable absence of an empty number is in the hundreds range.
Usage of empty numbers:
The word umpteen may be used as an adjective, as in I had to go to umpteen stores to find shoes that fit. It can also be used to modify a larger number, usually million, as in Umpteen million people watched the show; but they still cancelled it.
Umpty is not in common usage. It can appear in the form umpty-one (paralleling the usage in such numbers as twenty-one), as in There are umpty-one ways to do it wrong. Umpty-ump is also heard, though ump is never used by itself.
The word zillion may be used as an adjective, modifying a noun. The noun phrase normally contains the indefinite article a, as in There must be a zillion pages on the World Wide Web.
The plural zillions designates a number indefinitely larger than millions or billions. In this case, the construction is parallel to the one for millions or billions, with the number used as a plural count noun, followed by a prepositional phrase with of, as in There are zillions of grains of sand on the beaches of the world.
Empty numbers are sometimes made up, with obvious meaning: squillions is obviously an empty, but very large, number; a squintillionth would be a very small number.
Some empty numbers may be modified by actual numbers, such as four zillion, and are used for jest, exaggeration, or to relate abstractly to actual numbers.
Empty numbers are colloquial, and primarily used in oral speech or informal contexts. They are inappropriate in formal or scholarly usage.
See also Placeholder name.
See also[edit]
Mathematics portal
Indefinite and fictitious numbers
List of numbers
Long and short scales
Names of large numbers
Natural number
Number prefixes and their derivatives
References[edit]
^ Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, 1993, Merriam-Webster
^ Large Numbers at MROB.
^ Home – Yahoo Answers.
^ Hat trick, n.. Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
^ Shock, n.2. Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
^ the definition of ton.
^ How Do You Say 2010?.
^ What is a partitive numeral?.
^ Gary Blake and Robert W. Bly, The Elements of Technical Writing, pg. 22. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1993. ISBN 0020130856
External links[edit]
Look up Appendix:English ordinal numbers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Look up Appendix:English numerals in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
English Numbers – explanations, exercises and number generator (cardinal and ordinal numbers)