Timeline for When writing out large numbers in words, should commas be placed at thousand separators?
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| Mar 19, 2013 at 14:41 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @StJohnoftheCross I suppose one might possibly say two hundred and ninety-six hundreths. Whether one would get away with doing so, however, I cannot say. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 8:58 | comment | added | St John of the Cross | And never denotes a decimal point. And and always has a place in a properly written or spoken number. Admittedly, this comment may be locale-specific (British English) but then presumably your answer is locale-specific, too. Can you justify "and" as a decimal point? I've never encountered that in any writing, on either side of the Atlantic. | |
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| Mar 19, 2013 at 8:08 | history | edited | System Folder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a bit about comma use.
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| Mar 19, 2013 at 8:02 | history | answered | System Folder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |