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On 1/18/2013 10:37 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    In a Java programming class in Sunnyvale (U.S.A.), how would
>
> 0.01
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>    usually be pronounced?
>
>    nought point oh one?
>

"Point zero one," or "one one-hundredth," is how I'd pronounce it. 
Maybe "zero point zero one."  "Oh" is OK too in place of "zero."

Americans do not use "nought."  In fact my spell checker flags it as a 
misspelling.