I was reading a book called “BOMB” and the number 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 and I wanted to know what this number is in word form (how you say the word).
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One of the answers in a reading exercise in my class today was:   100,000,000,000,000,000,000   ... which was the value of the highest denomination note ever issued. It was a 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengo note, issued by Hungary in 1946. The students in my class wanted to know how they could say that last sentence in words in English. So I told them that I didn't know. They pointed out to me that if they wanted to read this bit of writing to someone they'd want to be able to use the words. Fair point.  Can anyone help?  [In case you're interested, a 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengo note was worth about $0.20!]
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In Microsoft Word, the following sentence is flagged.  It tells me to use "was" instead of "were"     There were half a dozen books strewn about the floor.   I would think that you would use "were" since it's a quantity more than one.  You wouldn't say, "There was twelve books strewn about the floor."  Does the use of the "half" modify it somehow?
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I can never remember the number. I need a memory rule.
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There are two one-letter words in English (“I” and “a”), and according to  there are 122 two-letter words. Let $A_n$ be the number of strings of n letters that may be formed from some sequence of one- and two-letter words, by concatenating them all together.  Find $a_3$  Give an expression for an in terms of $a_{n-1}$ and $a_{n-2}$, that works for all n ≥ 3.  So far a1 makes sense to just be "I" and "a" so a total of 2. a2 would be the 122 two letter strings plus a combination of adding the one letter words (i and a) giving ai, ia, ii and aa.  This would give a total of 126 for $a_2$.  doing the combinations for $a_3$ gives 495 but that doesn't seem right as there is no evident patter to use the formula $a_n=a_1r^{n-1}$.
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The number I am thinking of is 80808. This is a palindrome. However, it is more than a palindrome, because it can be flipped or mirrored and will still read the same way.  Is there a word for this?
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Is there a library or a class/function that I can use to convert an integer to it's verbal representation?  Example input:     4,567,788`   Example output:     Four million, Five hundred sixty-seven thousand, seven hundred eighty-eight
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I wanted to know, let the numbers $1,\frac12,\frac13,\dots,\frac1{1000}$ be written on a blackboard. One may delete two arbitrary numbers $a$ and $b$ and write $a+b+ab$ instead. After $999$ such operations only one number is left. What is this final number.  I tried, let $*$ be an operation $a*b = (1+a)(1+b) - 1$, and $(a*b)*c = (1+a)(1+b)(1+c) -1$. by induction we can show that for $N$ such no.s we have $(1+a)(1+b)(1+c)\dots(1+d) - 1$, where $n\{a,b,c,\dots,d\} = N$. In the question we have numbers $1,\frac12,\frac13,\dots,\frac1{1000}$. plugging in we get the final number $1000$, but the answer given is $100$.  What am i doing wrong?  Any help appreciated.  Thanks.
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Playing around with Google's Ngram viewer, where you can see how many times a word is used in books, I stumbled on this:    It shows how often  have been used in books.  I think it's somewhat interesting that around 1630 the use of these terms took off, and at 1750 there was a switch.   Anyone hazard any guesses to what happened around those years that caused the trends?   EDIT: It looks like the 1750 capitalization issue is more about the search data because the same phenomenon occurs for lots of terms. So maybe just what inspired the use of the word to take off around 1630.
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Kindly, what are your thoughts on the following sentences:        The maximum number of wordbooks (%d) have been saved.   The maximum number of wordbooks (%d) has been saved.      My opinion is that (1) is more appropriate as "save" relates to wordbooks (a plural noun) and "The ... number" is some kind of determiner.  The dissenting opinion is that "The number" is obviously singular, and the "wordbooks" are subsidiary.  I agree that (2) is grammatically correct but I maintain it implies merely a single number was saved, not the wordbooks themselves.
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I still can't wrap my head around this one and have to consult references every time I want to be safe:   Is it "0.4 point" or "0.4 points"?   Is it "1.0 point" or "1.0 points"?   I know that I can work around that by using four tenths of a point or one point instead, but sometimes writing 0.4 point/points or 1.0 point/points is called for, especially in technical documents.  I gathered that this mostly goes by the style guide I choose to (or have to) use, and it's quite possible that there is no universally accepted convention for this. Then again, in light of potential benefits for learners here, I think it's worth asking, and I hope that we can lay out some rules of thumb, something that can be used as a general guideline, especially on writing tests and exams.  Addendum: another case that's worth mentioning in answers, for completeness, is "0.0 point" or "0.0 points"? In my humble opinion, it's safe to assume that most learners on our site know what to use when the quantity falls out of the range between -1.0 and 1.0.
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I am not a native speaker and I must write a scientific document in American English. How would you correctly write "10000" using LaTeX ?   with a space only (10 000): $10\,000$ with a coma and no space in either side (10,000): $10{,}000$ with a coma and a space on its right (10, 000) : $10,000$   I have seen the second a few times, but I do not know if there is a consensus. Thanks for your help!
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In the  there are lots of numbers on display, including 1000, 2500 or 10000. The display is erratic though:    Same number, two displays. Both appear valid to me: 1000 or 1,000 but please, make it consistent. My eyes hurt! :) I just found , but there it's discussing the whole network while I'm asking just for that specific page. For a start.
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How many words can be formed, each of $2$ vowels and $3$ consonants from letters of the word "DAUGHTER"  What my textbook has done: it has first taken combinations of vowels and then consonants then multiplied them altogether. Now for each combination of words they can be shuffled in $5!$ ways, so multipliying by $5!$ we get the required answer.   My question is: why has the book  used combinations instead of permutations while selecting vowels and consonants?  Thanks.
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In PHP, is there an easy way to convert a number to a word? For instance, 27 to twenty-seven.
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I had an exam today (Egyptian GSEC english exam) and in a passage about library it said:     The book slipped from his hands and fell on the floor with loud noise, 20 eyes looked at him and his face turned red.....   It then asked: approximately,how many persons where at the library?  Ten or twenty or forty  But I would like to know if twenty eyes represent 10 persons or is it like a metaphor and represents 20 persons?  Is this expression even correct?  Edit : in the passage it was obvious that it is a normal library with normal people i just cut a part out of its context that serves the question
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I'd like to understand the logic behind uncountable nouns, such as "water", "meat" and others, specially "bread", for example.  I don't understand why can't we count them, since there are different kinds of water (e.g.: still, tap, sparkling, etc.), meat (e.g: beef, pork, etc.) and bread (baguette, bun, etc.).  Sorry if my question seems silly, but I'm not a native speaker.
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Possible Duplicate:    Based on , is there a rule of thumb when a number should be spelled out? These examples are easy:  I have two brothers. It's exactly 823 miles to New York.  But do I have 15 minutes of fame, or fifteen minutes of fame? Edit:   asks how the practice of spelling out numbers originated; I'm looking for specific guidelines.