Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: number and words Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 06:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 18 Message-ID: <24007613.517.1336139174406.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbbpp10> References: <7d4884d6-aebf-436e-8a76-1e2a3bf10c8b@n1g2000vby.googlegroups.com> <26508931.2139.1336000428636.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcvn7> <4fa249d6$0$12272$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk> <19395048.254.1336079296882.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbew9> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336139175 31165 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2012 13:46:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:46:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 1918 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14256 glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: > Lew wrote: > > (snip) > >> From : >> "Note that in American English, many students are taught 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. > > Specifically, for writing the number of dollars on checks. > (Maybe different on cheques.) The cents (xx/100) comes after the and. That's not "and" inside a number name, but between a number name and a numeral representation. Different case. -- Lew