Daniel B. wrote:
Damon L. Chesser wrote: ...My two cents: two hundred *and* twenty would = 200.20 or so I have been taught by my 9th grade math teacher. The *and* indicates a decimal.Are you sure you heard your math teacher correctly? If so, she or he was definitely wrong. Consider "one hundred and twenty five dollars": that certainly means $125 and not $100.25.
It is technically (mathematically speaking) "one hundred twenty five dollars".
Consider "101 Dalmations": I've usually heard that said as "one hundred and one dalmations" and that certainly doesn't mean 100.1 of them.
As I said, in common usage it is ignored and understood what you mean. It's like "never end a sentence in a prepresitional phrase". I don't unless I have to. ;)
> I[n] common usage it does not. Correct. Daniel
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