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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

how to count numbers

1,7000
"one thousand and seven hundred" or "seventeen hundred"?
2,200
"two thousand and two hundred" or "twenty two hundred"?
  

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one thousand seven hundred would look like this :1700, this 17,000 is seventeen THOUSAND. 2,200, they would both work (also, there's no and unless you have a decimal)

  • one thousand seven hundred would look like this :1700, this 17,000 is seventeen THOUSAND.
  • 2,200, they would both work (also, there's no and unless you have a decimal)
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one thousand seven hundred would look like this :1700, this 17,000 is seventeen THOUSAND.

2,200, they would both work
(also, there's no and unless you have a decimal)
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sorry i put extra 0 for 1700...
anyway thank you for your answer
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Anonymous 1,7000"one thousand and seven hundred" or "seventeen hundred"?2,200"two thousand and two hundred" or "twenty two hundred"?
You typed an extra zero.

They say that American style makes that "one thousand seven hundred" (no "and"), but I hear Americans use the "and" all the time. I think scientific style and proper style is without "

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