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| From | glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: number and words |
| Date | 2012-05-04 19:41 +0000 |
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Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote: (snip, someone wrote) >>> "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. Yes, but it only works if you don't put an "and" inside the number. (That is, "and" is the delimiter for the dollar amount.) -- glen
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number and words Daniel <daniel.chmielewski@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 13:55 -0700
Re: number and words Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-02 17:01 -0400
Re: number and words Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-02 14:23 -0700
Re: number and words Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 16:13 -0700
Re: number and words Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-02 19:19 -0400
Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-02 20:05 -0700
Re: number and words Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-05-02 18:41 -0500
Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-02 20:06 -0700
Re: number and words Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-05-03 00:06 -0500
Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-03 09:15 -0700
Re: number and words Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-05-03 12:00 -0500
Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-03 13:26 -0700
Re: number and words RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2012-05-03 10:03 +0100
Re: number and words Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-05-03 06:15 -0300
Re: number and words Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 14:08 -0700
Re: number and words glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-04 05:49 +0000
Re: number and words Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-04 06:46 -0700
Re: number and words glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-04 19:41 +0000
Re: number and words Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-03 14:14 -0700
Re: number and words Daniel <daniel.chmielewski@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 16:20 -0700
Re: number and words Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-05-03 15:12 +0000
Re: number and words Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-03 14:28 -0700
Re: number and words Tom McGlynn <taqmcg@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 15:32 -0700
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