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Words in the cardinal category are cardinal numbers, such as the English one, two, three, which name the count of items in a sequence. The multiple category are adverbial numbers, like the English once, twice, thrice, that specify the number of events or instances of otherwise identical or similar items.
twenty-three point three eight billion Often, large numbers are written with (preferably non-breaking ) half-spaces or thin spaces separating the thousands (and, sometimes, with normal spaces or apostrophes ) instead of commas —to ensure that confusion is not caused in countries where a decimal comma is used.
Twenty-Eight: 3 flutes, 1 alto flute, 4 clarinets, 3 oboes, 1 English horn, 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 4 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 tuba December 1991 Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken and the Alte Oper This piece may be performed with Twenty-Six (Fifty-Four), Twenty-Nine (Fifty-Seven), or both (Eighty-Three ...
Autograms exist that exhibit extra self-descriptive features. Besides counting each letter, here the total number of letters appearing is also named: [13] [14] This sentence contains one hundred and ninety-seven letters: four a's, one b, three c's, five d's, thirty-four e's, seven f's, one g, six h's, twelve i's, three l's, twenty-six n's, ten o's, ten r's, twenty-nine s's, nineteen t's, six u ...
One for sorrow, Two for luck (varia. mirth);Three for a wedding, Four for death (varia. birth);Five for silver, Six for gold; Seven for a secret never to be told, Eight for heaven,
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).
[6] [7] The text is known from a 15th-century CE palm-leaf manuscript, and several newer manuscripts. [8] It was composed or revised probably c. 800 CE from an earlier text also called the Surya Siddhanta. [5] The Surya Siddhanta text is composed of verses made up of two lines, each broken into two halves, or pãds, of eight syllables each. [3]