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[-] Harpsist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

At 40 I still get confused when people say shit like 12 - hundred and 16. I'm like... Is that 12 groups of 100? Is that a 12 with 000 after?

1 thousand, 2 hundred and 16.

But I wasn't ever a math major or anything.

Even as I typed it, it made sense. But to throw it into a conversation. Makes me less certain.

Flight school beat "twelve hundred" out of me.

[-] reattach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The more formal way of writing it (one thousand, two hundred and sixteen) is definitely more clear. But if it helps to remember the more colloquial way (twelve hundred): twelve hundred is a 12 followed by 2 zeros, just like one hundred is a 1 followed by 2 zeros.

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