SAYING NUMBERS. 2001 √16 $456 18.9 €5.6bn 5³ £12k 30 : 5 = 68 12/55 783,925 8⅔ 35,804 2,...
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Transcript of SAYING NUMBERS. 2001 √16 $456 18.9 €5.6bn 5³ £12k 30 : 5 = 68 12/55 783,925 8⅔ 35,804 2,...
2001 √16 $456 18.9 €5.6bn5³ £12k30 : 5 = 688
12/55 783,925 8⅔ 35,8042, 563, 45213.45% 098 33 06 491 0.689
Zero, oh, nought Before a decimal:0.5 zero/nought point five After a decimal point:0.001 nought/zero point oh oh one Telephone numbers, hotel room numbers, etc.:091 55 00 123 oh nine one five five oh oh one two three505 My hotel room is five oh five. Years1405 in fourteen oh five2006 in two thousand and six1700 in seventeen hundred2012 in twenty twelve
Decimals
17.6 seventeen point six16.46% sixteen point four six percent0.125 nought/zero point one two five
Currencies
• £9.54 nine pounds fifty four• £ 12k twelve thousand pounds• € 780 seven hundred and eighty euros
• $ 8.60 eight dollars sixty
Larger numbers100300 1000 40007430
357,629
1,400,302 1.000.000 / 1m1.000.000.000 / 1bn1.000.000.000.000$ 6.7 bn€ 567m
Larger numbers100 a (one) hundred300 three hundred (NOT hundreds)1000 a (one) thousand 4000 four thousand (NOT thousands)7430 seven thousand four hundred and thirty (BrE)
- I I - thirty (AmE)357,629 three hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred and twenty-
nine(BrE)- I I - fifty-seven thousand, six hundred twenty-nine (AmE)
1,400,302 one million four hundred thousand, three hundred and two (BrE)
- I I - two (AmE)1.000.000 / 1m a million1.000.000.000 / 1bn a billion (Cro. milijarda)1.000.000.000.000 a trillion (Cro. bilijun)
$ 6.7 bn six point seven billion dollars€ 567m five hundred and fifty-six million euros (BrE)
- I I - fifty-six million euros (AmE)
Writing big numbers
forty three thousand five hundred and sixty seven
two million seven hundred and fifty-four thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven
Writing big numbers A comma or a space is often used to divide large numbers into groups of 3 figures:
43,567 or 43 567 (forty three thousand five hundred and sixty seven)
2,754,897 or 2 754 897 (two million seven hundred and fifty- four thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven)
Sto ili stotine?
a hundred, a thousand or one million
v.
Hundreds of products were withdrawn from the market.
The company earned millions of dollars.
After several and a few
After several and a few there is no plural for hundred, thousand or million.
Several hundred people applied for the job.
The company predicts the sales of a few hundred products in the first three months.
Fractions
Whole numbers and fractions2⅔ two and two thirds
More complex fractions: use over 19/56 nineteen over fifty six31/144 thirty-one over one four four
Mathematical expressions
5 + 6 = 11 five plus six is/equals eleven (other words: add, and)
11 – 6 = 5 eleven minus six is/equals five (other words: less, subtract)
5 X 6 = 30 five times six is/equals thirty (other word: multiplied by)
30 : 5 = 6 thirty divided by five is/equals six (other word: over)