"Damon L. Chesser" <dchesser4@cox.net> writes: > Well, this kind of proves the point, does it not? You write out "one > hundred twenty three *and* 45/100 dollars". That is because you do > not want *any* confusion on the amount that will be drafted from your > account. Now I will stress once more. I say "one hundred *and* > twenty three thousand" or sometime I will drop the "and": Mostly I > insert the *and*. This is the location of the USA. I learned the > supposed rule in 1979. Just thought it was interesting. I learned how to write numbers long-hand in 1989. The only time "and" comes into play is to separate the integer from the fraction. 1,234,567.89 is "one million, two-hundred-thirty-four thousand, five-hundred-sixty-seven and eighty-nine one-hundredths." -- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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