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The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent- , from the original Latin, and those in -cent- , derived from centi- , etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .
Alternatively, and for greater numbers, one may say for 1 ⁄ 2 "one over two", for 5 ⁄ 8 "five over eight", and so on. This "over" form is also widely used in mathematics. Fractions together with an integer are read as follows: 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 is "one and a half" 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 is "six and a quarter" 7 + 5 ⁄ 8 is "seven and five eighths"
Examples in English are the words one, two, three, and the compounds three hundred [and] forty-two and nine hundred [and] sixty. Cardinal numerals are classified as definite, and are related to ordinal numbers , such as the English first , second , third , etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The accusative forms dŭōs m., dŭās f., the genitive dŭom, classical dŭōrum m./n., dŭārum f., and the dative/ablative dŭōbus m./n., dŭābus f., are original Latin formations replicating nominal declension patterns; at times, duo stands in for other case forms, especially when combined with invariant numerals, e. g. duo et vīgintī ...
Until 1835, the English Alphabet consisted of 27 letters: after "Z" the 27th letter of the alphabet was Ampersand (&) The total number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet (22 regular letters and 5 final consonants). Alternate name for The Hunt, a book by William Diehl. Abbé Faria's prisoner number in the book The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Twenty-eight is: An abbreviation for such years as 1928 and 2028. The number of Hebrew letters in Genesis 1:1, the first verse of the Bible. The number of wheels on a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. In the code for international direct dial phone calls, +28 is unassigned. 028 is the ISO 3166-1 numeric three-digit country code for Antigua and Barbuda.
Numbers in mathematical formulae are never spelled out (3 < π < 22 / 7 not three < pi < twenty-two sevenths), and "numbers as numbers" are rarely spelled out in other mathematical contexts (the first three primes are 2, 3, and 5 not the first three primes are two, three, and five; but zero-sum game and roots of unity).