Difference between "hundred", "a hundred", and "one hundred"?
In the UK 'a hundred, a hundred and one, a hundred and two' etc is a common style when speaking about 100, 101, 102 etc. This form is also used when writing what has been spoken. 'One hundred' is also used. Either form is also used …
Which came first when saying numbers: "one hundred AND one" …
Presque Isle, One hundred one dollars, fifty five cents, $101 55... Edmunds, One hundred one dollars, thirteen cents, 101 13. On the evidence of these (and other early) Google Books search results, it appears that "one hundred and one" was in use by the second half of the 1600s and that "one hundred one" was in use by the second half of the 1700s.
How do you correctly say large numbers
2011年8月15日 · Back in high school my algebra teacher was extremely picky. If we were going to say the number 135, we would say one hundred thirty-five. If a person said one hundred and thirty-five my teacher would interpret that to mean 100.35. Was my algebra teacher wrong, or did Jon just waste over 80 hours counting to 100,000 incorrectly.
American vs. British English: meaning of "One hundred and fifty"
2010年9月29日 · (Note that mathematical sentences can include multiple "and"s; eg two and two and two is six (2+2+2=6).) So "one-hundred and fifty" would be 100 + 50 where "one-hundred fifty" would be 150. That being said, "one-hundred and fifty thousand" is commonly interpreted as 150,000, not 100 + 50,000.
What’s the difference between ‘a hundred’ and ‘one hundred’?
2019年6月5日 · Q. Did Cruella de Ville steal one hundred and one Beagles, or two hundred and one? A. One hundred. And it was Dalmatians you idiot, not Beagles. Or, by contrast: Q. How many press ups did you say you do every morning; was it a hundred, or a million? A. Eh!? What do you think I am, a machine? It was a hundred. Obviously! But even there, the “a ...
Is it improper English to read the number 1100 as "eleven hundred"?
You can say nineteen-hundred, but not "twenty-one-hundred". Years are different, and I'd expect the year 2147 to be said as "twenty-one forty-seven". But the number 2147 would never be said that way: it's always "two thousand one hundred and forty-seven" (and note the and there; that's never omitted in BrE). Even with years, it's still not ...
writing style - A thousand / one hundred AND one? - English …
2018年3月19日 · Which came first when saying numbers: "one hundred AND one" or "one hundred one"? 1 Hyphens are used in words from 0-99 (correction 21-99), but what if a number larger than 99 is a compound adjective before a noun?
Using hundreds to express thousands: why, where, when?
2017年5月30日 · This Google Ngram two hundred thousand vs. two thousand one hundred shows them about equally common and both declining, perhaps in favor of numbers. I don't know how to compare across all possibilities (one thousand three hundred vs. thirteen hundred, etc.), but in text in books, the two forms are roughly equally common.
reading aloud - How should numbers be spelled on a receipt?
$201.37 — two hundred one dollars and 37 cents or (for checks) two hundred one and 37/100 dollars. $1525 — one thousand five hundred twenty-five dollars. $723,493 — seven hundred twenty-three thousand, four hundred ninety-three dollars. Conversationally, however, the usage varies. $100 — a hundred dollars or one hundred dollars
word usage - One hundred and fifty-one or one hundred fifty-one ...
2019年4月19日 · If you choose to speak “one hundred and twenty-five” which is what 90%+ of Americans say, not a big deal unless you take pride in speaking correctly. The problem occurs when the same person speaks .125 as “one hundred and twenty five thousandths” which is the number 100.025. .125 is correctly spoken “one hundred twenty-five ...