NUMBERS
SAYING NUMBERS
100 one
hundred/a hundred
1000 one
thousand/a thousand
1’000, 000 one
million/a million
189 ONE
HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE (A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE)
IT WOULD BE INCORRECT TO SAY: A ONE HUNDRED!
Do not say …millions dollars. The correct form is …million dollars
Millions.
123, 890 ONE
HUNDRED TWENTY THREE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED (AND) NINETY
1’292,736 ONE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO
THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED (AND) THIRTY SIX
bil·lion (bn)
(bĭl′yən)
n.
1. The
cardinal number equal to 109.
1000 000 000
2. Chiefly
British The cardinal number equal to 1012. 1 000 000 000 000
1.7 bn one
point seven billions
€1.8 bn One
point eight billion euros
CURRENCIES:
£ pounds
(libra esterlina) (Pound could
also refer to weight: libra=454 grams)
¥ yens
Dollars, rupees, francs, pesos…
SOME ORDINAL NUMBERS
(spelling)
FIFTH 5th
EIGHTH
NINTH
TWELFTH
TWENTIETH
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