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  2. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    Numbers at the beginning of a sentence should also be written out, or the sentence rephrased. The above rules are not always followed. In literature, larger numbers might be spelled out. On the other hand, digits might be more commonly used in technical or financial articles, where many figures are discussed.

  3. Numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Unless specified by context, numbers without subscript are considered to be decimal. By using a dot to divide the digits into two groups, one can also write fractions in the positional system. For example, the base 2 numeral 10.11 denotes 1×2 1 + 0×2 0 + 1×2 −1 + 1×2 −2 = 2.75. In general, numbers in the base b system are of the form:

  4. How To Write Numbers in Words on a Check - AOL

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    Rules for Writing Numbers in Words on a Check The National Credit Union Administration tells consumers to use words for dollars and fractions out of 100 for cents.

  5. Ordinal numeral - Wikipedia

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    English ordinal numbers – Name of numbers in English; Multiplier (linguistics) – Word indicating multiples of an object; Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used when writing ordinal numbers, such as a super-script)

  6. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    The Indian numbering system is used in the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) to express large numbers.The terms lakh or 1,00,000 (one hundred thousand, written as 100,000 in Pakistan and outside the subcontinent) and crore or 1,00,00,000 [1] (ten million, written as 10,000,000 outside the subcontinent) are the most commonly used terms in ...

  7. Numerical digit - Wikipedia

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    The ten digits of the Arabic numerals, in order of value. A numerical digit (often shortened to just digit) or numeral is a single symbol used alone (such as "1"), or in combinations (such as "15"), to represent numbers in positional notation, such as the common base 10.

  8. Numeral (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In English, these higher words are hundred 10 2, thousand 10 3, million 10 6, and higher powers of a thousand (short scale) or of a million (long scale—see names of large numbers). These words cannot modify a noun without being preceded by an article or numeral (* hundred dogs played in the park ), and so are nouns.

  9. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    Many languages have words expressing indefinite and fictitious numbers—inexact terms of indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, as placeholder names, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable. One technical term for such words is "non-numerical vague quantifier". [1]