Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Saying numbers
100 a hundred / one hundred
200 two hundred
1,000 a/one thousand
1,100 a/one thousand one hundred
eleven hundred
1,355 a/one thousand three hundred and
fifty-five
thirteen hundred and fifty-five
100,000 a/one hundred thousand
1,000,000 a/one million
1,000,000,000 a/one billion
1,000,000,000,000 a/one trillion
English uses comma (,) to separate large
numbers into groups of three digits, counting
from the right
Saying amounts of currency
20 twenty euros
$25.30 twenty-five dollars thirty
4.40 four pounds forty
The smaller currency unit is not usually said
Decimals
1.34 one point three four
3.45632 three point four five six three two
If the decimal is a unit (of money, for example,
both parts can be said like normal numbers
67.45 sixty-seven point forty-five
$67.45 the stock is trading at sixty-seven
forty-five