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Numbers
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1 million, 1 thousand, 1 hundred
11th thousand workers
13 thousand
20K (thousand)
3078 (Three thousand seventy eight), humans left The Earth
500,000 (five hundred thousand)
a couple thousand sales points
a coward dies a thousand deaths.....
a hundred thousand million [of] dollars (of + number) - grammar
a hundred thousand million million
A picture is worth a thousand words
A picture may be worth a thousand words.
A picture paints a thousand words...
A running man in the night can slit a thousand throats
A Smile is worth a thousand words
A thousand = Mil / Un mil - grammar
a thousand and one nights
A Thousand apologies
A thousand billion
A thousand cuts
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one third 1/3
a third 1/3
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Brian Overland
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0.5 is five tenths, 0.05 is five hundredths, and so 0.005 is five thousandths.
But this can become tedious. So another way to think of it is: Count the number of zeroes including the zero just to the left of the decimal point. Ten to the power of three is one thousand… which is how we know that 1,000 is one thousand. But two zeroes to the right of the decimal point — added to the first zero just to the left (a total of three) — is also “one thousand,” but now we are dealing in thousandths rather than one thousand.
Yet another way to procede is to 1) Move the decimal point two places to the RIGHT, and then 2) interpret the result as a percentage.
0.005 moved two places to the right is 0.5… which means that 0.005 can also be interpreted as half a percent.
0.005 = 0.5 %
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Forum on numbers
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What's bigger 0.0025 or 0.005?
That aside, .005 is larger. Read the number aloud and it'll become quite apparent. The first number, 0.0025, is read as "Twenty-five ten thousandths", whereas the second number, 0.005, is read as "Five thousandths".
If this doesn't immediately clear up the issue for you, involve the numbers in thought experiments using imagery: Suppose there are two men who are sitting in front of two piles of chocolate chip cookies. One pile has ten thousand cookies (because .0025 is read as "twenty five THOUSANDths"), the other has a thousand cookies ("five THOUSANDths")
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Forum on numbers
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I would say 'minus' informally, 'negative' more formally. For <0>, you could use 'zero', or 'oh' or 'nought' (BrE). In the BrE fashion the digits after the decimal point are read off one by one.
Therefore I might say these:
Minus nought point nought five six six
Negative zero point two four three four
Minus one point oh two
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Some websites on numbers:
Englisch Hilfen
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