NUMBERS

@ Cardinal numbers
integers

379 three hundred and seventy nine 5084 five thousand and eighty-four 2,860 two thousand eight hundred and sixty 470,000 four hundred and seventy thousand 2,550,000 two million, five hundred and fifty thousand

Note: 1,000,000,000 BE: one milliard or a thousand million; US: a billion Cro: milijarda 1,000,000,000,000 BE: one billion or a million million; US: a trillion Cro: bilijun a billion: US / France: 1 x 109

BE / German: 1 x 1012

-teen: 13 19 (fifteen /ffti:n/)

-ty: 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 (fifty /fifti/)

Even numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, . Odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9,.

Note: There is no plural s after hundred, thousand,

million and billion when they are part of a number. On their own, they can be plural, e.g. hundreds of aircraft, millions of insects.

a couple 2 / a few (Cro: par, dva, nekoliko) a dozen 12

dozens (Cro: deseci)

a score 20

(e.g. He has been looking for it for three score years. How long?)

@ Ordinal numbers

1st first, 2nd second, 3rd third, 4th fourth, 5th fifth, 6th sixth, ..

These are used either to indicate rank or the order of events.

@ Fractions and decimals

1 - one and a quarter 1 - one and a half 1 - one and three quarters - one third but 1/5 a fifth, 1/6 a sixth. 1/937 one over nine hundred and thirty-seven a/b a over b 1.25 one point two five 0.47 nought point four seven 0.001 nought point oh oh one (zero is not often used in reading decimal values) We say each number individually after the point.

@ Percentages
26% - twenty-six per cent (BE) 26% - twenty-six percent (AE) (no space between the digit and %)

more than 50% is the majority; less than 50% is the minority.

@ Arithmetic
four basic processes for working out (=calculating) a problem: + - addition (to add) e.g. 6+4=10 (six plus/and four equals/is ten) - subtraction (to subtract) e.g. 6-4=2 (six minus four equals/is two) x - multiplication (to multiply) e.g. 6x2=12 (six multiplied by two equals/is twelve) - division (to divide) e.g. 62=3 (six divided by two equals/is three)

@ Raising to the power

32=9 y3=5 24=64 equals x-5=

three squared equals nine y cubed equals five two (to the) power (of) four sixty-four x power minus five

@ Finding the root

9=3 38=2 the square root of nine is three the cube root of eight is two

416=2 the fourth root of sixteen is two

@ Saying 0 zero, oh, nought, nil, love

This can be spoken in different ways in different contexts: telephone numbers: 603 700 (six oh three seven double oh) (AE: zero) mathematics: 0.7 nought point seven, 6.02 six point oh two temperature: -10 = ten degrees below zero / minus ten degrees 90F = ninety degrees Fahrenheit above zero football: 2 : 0 two nil tennis: 30 : 0 thirty love

@ Numbers in digits

20/20 means perfect eyesight without glasses or contact lenses

The doctor said I still have 20/20 vision.

24/7 means 24 hours and 7 days a week (what would 24/7/365 mean?) 4x4 means a vehicle with four-wheel drive

@ Numbers in words

Large numbers are written as words at the beginning of a sentence:

Seventy-two thousand people were carried by that airline last year. OR rephrased by adding A total of .
or by changing the syntax:

That airline carried 72,000 people last year.

@ Numbers given by prefixes

guessing the meaning by looking at the prefix e.g. the Pentagon - five-sided

@ prefixes

uni- / mono (one) unilateral negotiations one-sided bi- / duo (two) bilateral negotiations two parties involved tri- / trio (three) a triangle a three-sided plane figure quad- / tetra (four) quadruplets four babies in one birth quin- / penta (five) pentagon five-sided sex- / hexa (six) sextet six musicians in a group sept- / hepta (seven) September originally the 7th month in the Roman year octo- / octa (eight) octopus animal with eight tentacles nono- / nona (nine) nonagon nine-sided figure deci- / deca (ten) decimal ten numeral system

@ how many bytes

1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte In 2000, 3 exabytes of information was created 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte 1000 Zettabyte = 1 Zottabyte 1000 Zottabyte = 1 Brontobyte that is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes

Note that the currency code is always written before the amount, but read after the amount in English: written as read as EUR 55.50 Fifty-five euro fifty (cent) USD 25.50 Twenty-five US dollars fifty (cents) GBP 3.20 Three pounds sterling twenty (pence)

Euro = the single European currency and the EUs official currency replaced the national currencies in most EU member states on 2002-01-01 The indefinite article which is used with euro is a not an.
Officially (singular and plural form: one euro, ten euro) - cent (eurocent) - invariable (ten cent). - euro is not capitalized - EUR is the ISO currency code for the euro.

@ digital dates

ISO 8601 standard

ccyy-mm-dd four digits for years and hyphens

2009-11-13

@ non-digital dates

13 November 2009 (BE)

read:

the thirteenth of November two thousand and nine November 13, 2009 (AE)

read:

November thirteenth two thousand and nine

@ time of day
12-hour clock: oclock (with words NOT figures)
in the morning / afternoon / evening, at night

a.m. / p.m. (with figures, NOT words) a.m. (lat. ante meridiem) before noon p.m. (lat. post meridiem) after noon e.g. 8.35 a.m. 4.20 p.m.

(12 a.m. midnight / 12 p.m. noon)

@ time of day
24-hour system (transport timetables, military
use)

four-digit numbers (with or without stop) e.g. 13.25 / 1325 0100 read: oh one hundred hours 1300 read: thirteen hundred hours