The numbers following the dot are pronounced Thanks for your help!Hi Marie, no we wouldn’t usually say “and” between the thousand and hundreds, so it’d just be one thousand two hundred.Hi, could you let me know if this $2,513,000,000 is the same as $2,513 millions or should be $2,513 billions?Hi Rod, that would be either $2,513 million or $2.513 billion (note both million and billion are singular here).Dear Phil, sorry to come back for the same question, but I didn´t get it well: how do you write the number $2,513,000,000 shortern: a) $2,513 million or b) $2.513 billion.Hi Rod, sorry for the slow reply – both are correct, depending on if you want to describe it in millions or billions.wow, English sometimes is complex to me, but this is really difficult.Hi Rod, yes I can see why it might confusing! figure definition: 1. the symbol for a number or an amount expressed in numbers: 2. between 1 and 9/between 10 and….

In this edition of 6 Minute Vocabulary, Callum and Finn talk about big numbers in English: how to say them and how to refer to them indirectly. I think it only really applies to hundreds of thousands, along these lines, “X hundred and X thousand, X hundred and X.” But some people would leave out the first “and”, “X hundred X thousand, X hundred and X.”Yes, if you’re saying it like that (i.e. One million and one hundred thousand. The first option, “three and twenty five”, I’d say is less likely as it sounds a bit unnatural and/or archaic.I am trying to read this number and I have to say that I am not 100% sure.I have been trying to understand all the positions where “and” is used in British English. This is perfectly acceptable. Learn more. For instance 4 is also a single figure (or digit) number, and 13,425 is In this article, you’ll learn all the major number-naming conventions.This table shows how we can describe some groups of numbers as they increase in size:In the past, there was a distinction between the American billion (1,000,000,000) and the British or European billion (1,000,000,000,000 – now the trillion), but in modern use the vast majority of the English speaking world has adopted the American version.We say large numbers by listing the numbers in order of size, biggest first.

and "Two to the power of three equals eight. 6 eggs = "Half a dozen eggs." two thousand million) it would be simpler/more common to say $2.153 billion.Such an awesome resource! When reading a single number, all the number labels should be singular, for example 10,400 is We describe three digit numbers in hundreds, then tens. This converter will convert numbers to words and figures to words. Do we keep the commas in case of ordinal numbers?

However, when we use the figure size of the number to describe a noun (such as a salary, price or to refer to a number itself) we simply use There are many informal alternative names for groups of numbers that can be used to simplify names. For example, 123456 is read one hundred twenty three thousand four hundred and fifty six or one hundred and twenty three thousand four hundred and fifty six?Hi Bea, sorry for the slow reply – there’s some flexibility here, you could use more than one “and” as you say, or just the final “and”. So, 1k = 1,000.If you see a job advertised and it offers a salary of £12k it means £12,000.00.The letter m is often used to denote a million. separately. only using the extra ‘and’ for hundreds and thousands) then it shouldn’t be considered incorrect.Sorry for the slow reply – no, though we do sometimes talk about low thousands as hundreds interchangeably, typically we do not take hundreds of thousands beyond nine, as it then becomes millions.Can you say 1100000 as one million and one hundred thousandHi Hassan – you could in theory, I think regionally some people might say that, but typically I wouldn’t, definitely not if it’s followed by a noun (e.g. I was struggling with big numbers which had zero as the 3rd / 2nd last digit of the number like 345 004. It seems I heard people speaking this way, but I am not sure ..“three twenty five” yes, that’s possible and will sound more natural depending on the context (eg talking about petrol prices we’ll often refer to a 3 digit number this way, not as a decimal or with an ‘and’).