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I'm not sure where "one hundred and seventeen" would mean 100.17. To me, as someone from the US, it unambiguously means 117. I probably wouldn't use the "and" m
by dwringer 4y ago
I'm not sure where "one hundred and seventeen" would mean 100.17. To me, as someone from the US, it unambiguously means 117. I probably wouldn't use the "and" myself, but it makes no difference in interpreting the numbers. To say 100.17, I would say "and 17 hundredths", not just "and 17" (17 what?).
- fsckboy 4y agoimagine you are reading lists of currency amounts off to another person across the room going over ledgers. It's an easy shorthand to adopt to compress more information into the bandwidth. And if you adopt it as a way of speaking every day, you don't need to talk about it any more. I think people are forgetting, before the days of numeric calculation by machines, there were rooms full of people tasked with keeping track of these things.