How to Read Number of 4 Digits in an American Way

Name of numbers in English

English number words include numerals and various words derived from them, as well as a large number of words borrowed from other languages.

Primal numbers [edit]

Cardinal numbers refer to the size of a group. In English language, these words are numerals.

0	zero (nought)	10	ten
1	1	11	11
2	two	12	twelve (a dozen)	xx	xx
3	iii	xiii	xiii (a baker'due south dozen)	30	thirty
4	iv	14	xiv	40	forty
5	five	fifteen	fifteen	50	50
vi	six	16	sixteen	60	sixty
vii	7	17	seventeen	70	seventy
8	eight	18	eighteen	80	80
nine	ix	19	nineteen	ninety	90

If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and the second digit is not zero, the number is typically written every bit ii words separated by a hyphen.

21	20-one
25	20-five
32	thirty-two
58	fifty-eight
64	sixty-four
79	lxx-nine
83	fourscore-iii
99	90-9

In English, the hundreds are perfectly regular, except that the give-and-take hundred remains in its singular form regardless of the number preceding it.

So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed past the word "chiliad". For the number m it may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000, for larger numbers they are written for example x 000 or 10,000 for ease of human reading^{[ example needed ]}. The use of the , every bit a separator is avoided in some languages^{[ citation needed ]} as information technology is used for a decimal placement, for case with money^{[ citation needed ]}. As a result some style guides^{[ instance needed ]} recommend avoidance of the comma (,) as a separator and only to utilize the menses (.) every bit a decimal placement. Thus a half would be written 0.v in decimal, base of operations ten notation, and l g as fifty 000, and not 50.000 nor 50,000 nor 50000. Equally the English language linguistic communication has no language academy to make usage correct in that location is still a wide variety of usage, other languages exercise 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^{[ instance needed ]} which leads to varied usage.

1,000	k
2,000	two thousand
...	...
10,000	10 m or (rarely used) a myriad, which unremarkably means an indefinitely large number.
11,000	eleven thousand
...	...
20,000	twenty thousand
21,000	twenty-i thousand
thirty,000	thirty chiliad
85,000	fourscore-five grand
100,000	one hundred m or one lakh (Indian English)
999,000	nine hundred and ninety-nine 1000 (inclusively British English, Irish English, Australian English, and New Zealand English) nine hundred xc-nine thousand (American English language)

i,000,000	i million
10,000,000	x one thousand thousand or one crore (Indian English)

In American usage, 4-digit numbers are often named using multiples of "hundred" and combined with tens and ones: "xi hundred three", "twelve hundred twenty-5", "forty-seven hundred forty-two", or "ninety-nine hundred 90-9." In British usage, this style is common for multiples of 100 between i,000 and 2,000 (e.g. 1,500 as "fifteen hundred") but not for college numbers.

Americans may pronounce four-digit numbers with non-nix tens and ones as pairs of two-digit numbers without proverb "hundred" and inserting "oh" for zero tens: "twenty-half-dozen 50-nine" or "forty-one oh five". This usage probably evolved from the distinctive usage for years; "nineteen-eighty-one", or from iv-digit numbers used in the American telephone numbering system which were originally 2 letters followed by a number followed by a four-digit number, later by a 3-digit number followed by the iv-digit number. It is avoided for numbers less than 2500 if the context may mean confusion with time of twenty-four hours: "x x" 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 manner is for when they are used as labels. The second cavalcade 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 non necessarily directly interchangeable betwixt the 2 regional variants). In other words, British English and American English can seemingly concord, but it depends on a specific situation (in this example, omnibus numbers).^{[ commendation needed ]}

	Mutual British colloquial	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 zippo.	"I-oh-1."
109	"A hundred and nine."	"One-oh-nine."	"One-oh-nine."
110	"A hundred and x."	"One-x."	"One-one-oh."
117	"A hundred and seventeen."	"One-seventeen."	"One-one-seven."
120	"A hundred and twenty."	"One-20."	"One-two-oh", "One-2-zero."
152	"A hundred and fifty-two."	"One-l-ii."	"I-five-two."
208	"Two hundred and eight."	"Two-oh-eight."	"Two-oh-eight."
394	"Three hundred and ninety-four."	"Three-90-four."	"Three-ninety-four." or "Three-9-4."

Note: When a cheque (or check) is written, the number 100 is always written "one hundred". Information technology is never "a hundred".

In American English, many students are taught^{[ example needed ]},^{[ commendation needed ]} non to use the word and anywhere in the whole part of a number, so it is not used earlier the tens and ones. It is instead used as a exact delimiter when dealing with compound numbers. Thus, instead of "three hundred and seventy-3," "three hundred seventy-three" would exist said. Despite this dominion, some Americans use the and in reading numbers containing tens and ones equally an alternative variant.

Very large numbers [edit]

For numbers above a million, iii main systems name numbers in English (for the use of prefixes such as kilo- for a one thousand, mega- for a meg, milli- for a thousandth, etc. see SI units):

the long scale (formerly used in British English merely at present less and then) designates a system of numeric names in which a k million is called a milliard, and billion is used for a million million. This arrangement is even so used in several other European languages.
the short scale (always used in American English language 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 directly experience of manipulating numbers this large, and many non-American readers may interpret billion every bit 10¹² (fifty-fifty 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	Brusque scale	Long scale	Indian (or Due south Asian) English language
one,000,000	10^half-dozen	one million	ane 1000000	10 lakh
1,000,000,000	10^nine	one billion a g meg	1 milliard a yard million	one hundred crore (one arab)
ane,000,000,000,000	10¹²	one trillion a m billion	one billion a meg million	one lakh crore (x kharab)
1,000,000,000,000,000	ten^xv	one quadrillion a thousand trillion	one billiard a thousand billion	ten crore crore (one padm)
i,000,000,000,000,000,000	10^eighteen	one quintillion a one thousand quadrillion	ane trillion a million billion	ten thousand crore crore (ten shankh)
ane,000,000,000,000,000,000,000	10²¹	1 sextillion a one thousand quintillion	one trilliard a m trillion	one crore crore crore

The numbers past ane trillion in the short scale, in ascending powers of 1000, are equally follows: quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion, quindecillion, sexdecillion, septendecillion, octodecillion, novemdecillion and vigintillion (which is x to the 63rd power, or a one followed past 63 zeros). The highest number in this series listed in mod dictionaries is centillion, which is 10 to the 303rd power.^[one] The acting powers of i yard betwixt 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'due south table of such unofficial names^[2] is milli-millillion, which was coined as a name for 10 to the three,000,003rd power.

The googolplex was often cited as the largest named number in English. If a googol is x to the i hundredth power, and 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 estimate composite large numbers in American English:

Quantity	Written	Pronounced
i,200,000	1.ii million	ane point two meg
3,000,000	three one thousand thousand	three million
250,000,000	250 million	two hundred fifty million
6,400,000,000	half dozen.4 billion	vi point four billion
23,380,000,000	23.38 billion	xx-3 point three 8 billion

Often, large numbers are written with (preferably non-breaking) one-half-spaces or thin spaces separating the thousands (and, sometimes, with normal spaces or apostrophes) instead of commas—to ensure that confusion is not acquired in countries where a decimal comma is used. Thus, a million is ofttimes written 1 000 000.

In some areas, a point (. or ·) may besides exist used as a thousands separator, but then the decimal separator must exist a comma (,). In English the point (.) is used as the decimal separator, and the comma (,) as the thousands separator.

Special names [edit]

Some numbers have special names in addition to their regular names, most depending on context.

0:
- nothing: formal scientific usage
- nought: more often than not British usage, common in science to refer to subscript 0 indicating an initial country
- naught: archaic term for nothingness, which may or may not be equivalent to the number; by and large American usage, old-fashioned spelling of nought
- null: proscribed merely nevertheless occasionally used when a digit is 0 (equally in "thirty-goose egg-six", the .thirty-06 Springfield burglarize cartridge and by association guns that burn down it). Aughts also refers to the decade of 2000-2009 in American English.
- oh: used when spelling numbers (similar telephone, depository financial institution account, autobus line [British: bus road]) but can cause defoliation with the letter o if reading a mix of numbers and letters
- nil: in general sport scores, British usage ("The score is 2–goose egg.")
- nada: in general sport scores, American usage ("The score is ii–null.")
- null: to an object or idea related to nothingness. The 0th aleph number ( $\aleph _{0}$ ) is pronounced "aleph-zero".
- love: in tennis, badminton, squash and like sports (origin disputed, said by the Oxford English language Dictionary to exist from the thought that when one does a affair "for love", that is for no monetary proceeds, the word "love" implies "zip". The previously held belief that it originated from French: l'œuf, lit.'the egg', due to its shape, is no longer widely accustomed)
- zilch, nada (from Spanish), zip: used informally when stressing nothingness; this is true peculiarly in combination with ane another ("You know nothing—aught, nada, nil , null!"); American usage
- nix: too used as a verb; mostly American usage
- aught / nada: primitive, from French chiffre , in turn from Arabic sifr , meaning nix
- zip (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, equally in tennis or golf, indicating success with one stroke, and the face of a die, playing bill of fare or domino half with one pip
- birdie in golf denotes i stroke less than par, and bogey, one stroke more than par
- solo
- unit of measurement
- linear the degree of a polynomial is 1; also for explicitly denoting the kickoff power of a unit of measurement: linear metre
- unity in mathematics
- protagonist first actor in theatre of Ancient Hellenic republic, similarly Proto-Isaiah and proton
2:
- couple
- brace, from Sometime French "arms" (the plural of arm), equally in "what can be held in two arms".
- pair
- deuce the face of a dice, playing card or domino half with 2 pips
- eagle in golf denotes two strokes less than par
- duo
- quadratic the degree of a polynomial is two
  - also square or squared for denoting the second power of a unit: square metre or metre squared
- penultimate, second from the finish
- deuteragonist second actor in theatre of Ancient Greece, similarly Deutero-Isaiah and deuteron
3:
- trey the confront of a die or playing card with 3 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 role 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 ability of a unit: cubic metre or metre cubed
- albatross in golf denotes three strokes less than par. Sometimes chosen double eagle
- hat-fox or hat flim-flam: achievement of three feats in sport or other contexts^[4]
- antepenultimate tertiary from the end
- tritagonist tertiary actor in theatre of Ancient Greece, similarly Trito-Isaiah and triton
- turkey in bowling, 3 consecutive strikes
four:
- cater: (rare) the face of a die or playing carte du jour with iv pips
- quartet
- quartic or biquadratic the caste of a polynomial is 4
- quad (short for quadruple or the like) several specialized sets of 4, such as 4 of a kind in poker, a carburetor with four inputs, etc.,
- condor in golf denotes four strokes less than par
- preantepenultimate quaternary from the end
five:
- cinque or cinq (rare) the face of a dice or playing carte with five pips
- quintet
- nickel (informal American, from the value of the v-cent US nickel, but applied in not-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:
- one-half a dozen
- sice (rare) the face of a die or playing card with half-dozen pips
- sextet
- sextic or hectic the caste of a polynomial is 6
7:
- septet
- septic or heptic the degree of a polynomial is 7
8:
- octet
ix:
- nonet
10:
- dime (breezy American, from the value of the ten-cent U.s.a. dime, merely practical in non-monetary references)
- decet
- decade, used for years but besides 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 bakery'due south dozen
20: a score (first power of the vigesimal base), nowadays archaic; famously used in the opening of the Gettysburg Address: "4 score and seven years ago..." The Number of the Beast in the Male monarch James Bible is rendered "Six hundred threescore and six". Also in The Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 90 every bit used in the Burial Service—"The days of our historic period are lx years and ten; ...."
50: half-century, literally one-half of a hundred, commonly used in cricket scores.
55: double-nickel (breezy American)
60: a shock: historical commercial count, described as "three scores".^[5]
100:
- A century, likewise used in cricket scores and in cycling for 100 miles.
- A ton, in Democracy English, the speed of 100 mph^[half-dozen] or 100 km/h.
- A pocket-sized hundred or short hundred (primitive, meet 120 below)
120:
- A great hundred or long hundred (twelve tens; as opposed to the pocket-size hundred, i.e. 100 or ten tens), likewise 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 more often than not in commerce
500: a ream
1000:
- a grand, colloquially used specially when referring to money, as well in fractions and multiples, eastward.one thousand. half a grand, two yard, etc. Grand can also be shortened to "Thousand" in many cases.
- K, originally from the abbreviation of kilo-, eastward.chiliad. "He only makes $20K a year."
- Millennium (plural: millennia), a flow of ane g years.
- kilo- (Greek for "1000"), a decimal unit prefix in the Metric system cogent multiplication by "chiliad". For case: one kilometre = 1000 metres.
1728: a great gross (a dozen gross, third power of the duodecimal base of operations), used historically in commerce
10,000: a myriad (a hundred hundred), normally used in the sense of an indefinite very loftier number
100,000: a lakh (a hundred thousand), in Indian English
10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written equally 100,00,000.
10¹⁰⁰: googol (ane followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics
x^googol: googolplex (1 followed past a googol of zeros)
10^googolplex: googolplexplex (1 followed by a googolplex of zeros)

Combinations of numbers in most sports scores are read every bit in the following examples:

1–0 British English: ane-cypher; American English: one-cypher, one-zip, or one-nada
0–0 British English: nil-nil or nil all; American English language: zero-zero or zilch-nothing, (occasionally scoreless or no score)
2–2 two-two or 2 all; American English also twos, two to two, even at 2, or two up.

Naming conventions of Tennis scores (and related sports) are unlike from other sports.

The centuries of Italian culture accept names in English language borrowed from Italian:

duecento "(yard 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 vii. Exceptions are the emergency telephone number 999, which is always nine nine nine and the apocalyptic "Number of the Fauna", which is always six six half dozen. In the US, 911 (the The states emergency telephone number) is usually read ix one i, while 9/11 (in reference to the September eleven, 2001, attacks) is normally read 9 eleven.

Multiplicative adverbs and adjectives [edit]

A few numbers take specialised multiplicative numbers (adverbs), besides called adverbial numbers, which express how many times some event happens:

1 time	once
two times	twice
three times	thrice (largely obsolete)

Compare these specialist multiplicative numbers to limited how many times some affair exists (adjectives):

× 1	alone	atypical	one-off
× 2	double	twofold	duplicate
× 3	triple	threefold	triplicate
× iv	quadruple	fourfold
× v	quintuple	fivefold
× 6	sextuple, hextuple	sixfold
× 7	septuple, heptuple	sevenfold
×100	.....	hundredfold

English language besides 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 proper name of the corresponding positive number preceded by "minus" or (American English language) "negative". Thus −5.2 is "minus v bespeak 2" or "negative v point two". For temperatures, Northward Americans colloquially say "below"—short for "beneath cypher"—then a temperature of −5° is "five below" (in contrast, for example, to "two above" for ii°). This is occasionally used for accent 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 migrate higher up and beneath cypher at sure times of year.

Ordinal numbers [edit]

Ordinal numbers refer to a position in a series. Common ordinals include:

0th	zeroth or (rarely) noughth (see below)	10th	10th
1st	first	11th	eleventh
2nd	second	12th	twelfth	20th	twentieth
3rd	third	13th	thirteenth	30th	thirtieth
4th	quaternary	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 simply has a pregnant 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	20-outset
25th	twenty-5th
32nd	thirty-second
58th	fifty-eighth
64th	60-fourth
79th	seventy-ninth
83rd	eighty-third
99th	ninety-ninth

Higher ordinals are not oft written in words, unless they are circular 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 ane, then "th" is written after the number. For example: 13th, 19th, 112th, nine,311th.
If the tens digit is non equal to 1, then the following table could be used:

If the units digit is:	0	ane	ii	3	4-9
This is written after the number	thursday	st	nd	rd	th

For example: 2nd, seventh, 20th, 23rd, 52nd, 135th, 301st.

These ordinal abbreviations are actually hybrid contractions of a numeral and a give-and-take. 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 "2d" and "3rd" is simply "d".

For instance: 42d, 33d, 23d.

NB: "D" still often denotes "second" and "third" in the numeric designations of units in the The states military, for example, 533d Squadron, and in legal citations for the 2d and 3rd serial of instance reporters.

Dates [edit]

There are a number of ways to read years. The following table offers a list of valid pronunciations and alternate pronunciations for whatsoever given year of the Gregorian calendar.

Year	Most common pronunciation method	Culling methods
1 BC	(The year) One BC	(The year) One BCE^{[note ane]}
1	The year One	(The year) One CE^{[note 2]} Advert One^{[annotation three]}
235	Ii thirty-5	Two-three-five 2 hundred (and) thirty-5
911	9 11	Nine-one-one Nine hundred (and) eleven
999	Nine ninety-ix	Nine-9-ix Ix hundred (and) ninety-9
g	One one thousand	Ten hundred 1K
1004	One thousand (and) four	Ten oh-four
1010	Ten x	One thousand (and) x
1050	X fifty	One yard (and) fifty
1225	Twelve twenty-5	One-two-two-five Grand, two hundred (and) twenty-five Twelve-two-five
1900	Nineteen hundred	One thousand, ix hundred Xix nada
1901	Xix oh-one	Nineteen hundred (and) 1 Thou, nine hundred (and) ane Nineteen aught one
1919	Nineteen nineteen	Nineteen hundred (and) nineteen One thousand, ix hundred (and) 19
1999	19 ninety-nine	Nineteen hundred (and) ninety-ix One thousand, nine hundred (and) ninety-nine
2000	Two thou	Twenty hundred 2 triple-oh Y2K
2001	Two chiliad (and) one	Twenty oh-i Twenty hundred (and) one Two double-oh-1 2 oh-oh-one
2009	Two thousand (and) nine	20 oh-nine 20 hundred (and) ix Two double-oh-9 Two oh-oh-9
2010	Twenty ten^[7]	Twenty hundred (and) ten ii-oh-one-oh Two thou (and) ten

^ Before the Mutual era.
^ of the Common era.
^ Anno Domini 1 ("In the year One of our Lord") is sometimes written ane Advertizing.

Twelve thirty-four would be the norm on both sides of the Atlantic for the year 1234. The years 2000 to 2009 are well-nigh ofttimes read as two thousand, two k (and) one and the like by both British and American speakers. For years subsequently 2009, 20 xi, twenty fourteen, etc. are more than common, even in years earlier than 2009 BC/BCE. Likewise, the years afterward 1009 (until 1099) are also read in the aforementioned manner (due east.thou. 1015 is either ten fifteen or, rarely, one grand 15). Some Britons read years within the 1000s to 9000s BC/BCE in the American manner, that is, 1234 BC is read equally twelve (hundred and) thirty-four BC, while 2400 BC can be read as either ii thousand four hundred or 20 four hundred BC.

Commonage numbers [edit]

Commonage numbers are numbers that refer to a group of a specific size. Words similar "pair" and "dozen" are common in English, though near are formally derived from Greek and Latin numerals, as follows:


Group Size	Latin-derived	Colloquial
i	monad
two	dyad, duad	pair
3	triad
four	tetrad
5	pentad
6	hexad
7	heptad, hebdomad
8	octad, ogdoad
9	nonad, ennead
10	decad, decade
eleven	hendecad
12	dodecad, duodecade	dozen
thou	yard

Fractions and decimals [edit]

Numbers used to announce the denominator of a fraction are known linguistically as "partitive numerals." In spoken English language, ordinal numerals and partitive numerals are identical with a few exceptions. Thus "5th" tin can mean the element between fourth and sixth, or the fraction created by dividing the unit of measurement into five pieces. When used equally a partitive numeral, these forms can be pluralized: i seventh, two sevenths. The sole exceptions to this rule are sectionalization 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 "one-half" (plural "halves") are used. For a fraction with a denominator of four, either "4th" or "quarter" may be used.

Here are some common English fractions, or partitive numerals:^[viii]

${\tfrac {ane}{100}}$	one one-hundredth
${\tfrac {2}{100}}$	2 i-hundredths
${\tfrac {three}{100}}$	three ane-hundredths
${\tfrac {one}{200}}$	ane 2-hundredth
${\tfrac {2}{200}}$	ii ii-hundredths
${\tfrac {3}{200}}$	3 ii-hundredths
${\tfrac {1}{16}}$	ane sixteenth
${\tfrac {1}{10}}$ or 0.1	1 tenth
${\tfrac {1}{8}}$	ane eighth
${\tfrac {2}{10}}$ or 0.2	two tenths or one fifth
${\tfrac {1}{4}}$	ane quarter or 1 fourth
${\tfrac {3}{10}}$ or 0.3	iii tenths
${\tfrac {i}{3}}$	ane third
${\tfrac {3}{8}}$	three eighths
${\tfrac {4}{ten}}$ or 0.4	four tenths or two fifths
${\tfrac {one}{2}}$	one one-half
${\tfrac {6}{x}}$ or 0.6	six tenths or three fifths
${\tfrac {5}{8}}$	5 eighths
${\tfrac {2}{three}}$	two thirds
${\tfrac {seven}{10}}$ or 0.seven	vii tenths
${\tfrac {3}{iv}}$	three quarters or iii fourths
${\tfrac {8}{10}}$ or 0.8	eight tenths or four fifths
${\tfrac {7}{eight}}$	seven eighths
${\tfrac {9}{10}}$ or 0.9	nine tenths
${\tfrac {15}{sixteen}}$	15 sixteenths

Alternatively, and for greater numbers, one may say for 1/2 "one over two", for 5/8 "five over 8", then on. This "over" class is as well 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"
vii⅝ is "vii and five eighths"

A space is required between the whole number and the fraction; nevertheless, if a special fraction character is used like "½", then the space tin can be washed without, east.m.

9 1/2
ix½

Numbers with a decimal point may be read as a cardinal number, then "and", and so another key number followed by an indication of the significance of the 2d central number (mainly U.Southward.); or as a key number, followed by "point", and then by the digits of the fractional part. The indication of significance takes the grade of the denominator of the fraction indicating sectionalisation by the smallest ability of 10 larger than the 2d key. This is modified when the kickoff cardinal is goose egg, in which case neither the zero nor the "and" is pronounced, merely the cipher 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 (5 tenths), such as xiii and seven tenths for 13.7. This formality is frequently dropped in common spoken communication and is steadily disappearing in instruction in mathematics and scientific discipline as well as in international American schools. In the U.K., and among near North Americans, 13.7 would exist read thirteen point seven.

For case:

0.002 is "point zip null two", "point oh oh two", "nought indicate zero zero two", etc.; or "2 thousandths" (U.South., occasionally)
3.1416 is "3 point one four i vi"
99.3 is "ninety-nine indicate iii"; or "xc-nine and three tenths" (U.S., occasionally).

In English the decimal betoken was originally printed in the center of the line (0·002), but with the advent of the typewriter it was placed at the lesser of the line, so that a single key could be used equally a full cease/flow 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 bespeak.

Whether or non digits or words are used [edit]

With few exceptions, most grammatical texts rule that the numbers nothing to nine inclusive should be "written out" – instead of "1" and "ii", one would write "i" and "2".^[ix]

Example: "I accept ii apples." (Preferred)

Example: "I have 2 apples."

After "ix", 1 can head direct back into the 10, eleven, 12, etc., although some write out the numbers until "twelve".

Case: "I have 28 grapes." (Preferred)

Instance: "I have twenty-eight grapes."

Another mutual usage is to write out any number that can be expressed as ane or two words, and utilise figures otherwise.

Examples:

"There are vi million dogs." (Preferred)

"There are half dozen,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 starting time of a sentence should also be written out, or the judgement rephrased.

The in a higher place rules are not e'er followed. In literature, larger numbers might be spelled out. On the other hand, digits might be more than commonly used in technical or financial manufactures, where many figures are discussed. In particular, the two unlike forms should not exist used for figures that serve the same purpose; for example, it is inelegant to write, "Between day twelve and 24-hour interval 15 of the report, the population doubled."

Empty numbers [edit]

Colloquial English'due south small vocabulary of empty numbers can be employed when at that place is incertitude as to the precise number to utilise, 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 every bit being between 13 and 19 inclusive)
"-ty" (designating the range as beingness between 20 and 90 inclusive)
"-illion" (designating the range as being in a higher place i,000,000; or, more mostly, equally being extremely large).

The prefix "ump-" is added to the kickoff 2 suffixes to produce the empty numbers "umpteen" and "umpty": information technology is of uncertain origin. A noticeable absence of an empty number is in the hundreds range.

Usage of empty numbers:

The give-and-take "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 change a larger number, ordinarily "1000000", as in "Umpteen million people watched the show; but they yet cancelled it."
"Umpty" is non in common usage. Information technology can appear in the form "umpty-i" (paralleling the usage in such numbers as "xx-one"), equally in "There are umpty-one ways to do information technology incorrect." "Umpty-ump" is likewise heard, though "ump" is never used by itself.
The discussion "zillion" may be used equally an adjective, modifying a noun. The noun phrase normally contains the indefinite commodity "a", equally 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 structure is parallel to the one for "millions" or "billions", with the number used as a plural count substantive, followed by a prepositional phrase with "of", as in "There are zillions of grains of sand on the beaches of the earth."
Empty numbers are sometimes made upward, with obvious meaning: "squillions" is obviously an empty, merely very large, number; a "squintillionth" would be a very small number.
Some empty numbers may be modified by actual numbers, such as "iv zillion", and are used for jest, exaggeration, or to relate abstractly to actual numbers.
Empty numbers are vernacular, and primarily used in oral oral communication or informal contexts. They are inappropriate in formal or scholarly usage.

Come across besides [edit]

Indefinite and fictitious numbers
List of numbers
Long and brusque scales
Names of large numbers
Natural number
Number prefixes and their derivatives
Convert numbers to words

References [edit]

^ Webster's Third New International Lexicon, Entire, 1993, Merriam-Webster
^ "Big Numbers at MROB".
^ "Domicile - Yahoo Answers".
^ "Hat trick, n.". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
^ "Daze, n.2". Oxford English Lexicon. Oxford University Printing. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
^ "the definition of ton".
^ "How Practise You lot 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]

English language Numbers - explanations, exercises and number generator (cardinal and ordinal numbers)

youngerarecow96.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals