I just realized that I’ve never needed to use 31th or 31st in my four years English study. So which one is correct, and what about other alternatives? 31th or 31st 101th or 101st 1001th or 1001st Can I also use that way everywhere in the same way (for example, ordinal numbers in math)? Answer … Read more
I’m looking for a word that can be used to describe any number that can be divided by 100, without a remainder, e.g. 100, 200, 300, 400, etc. – does it exist? I was thinking of centurion, but that really refers to a person rather than a number. Answer A Century. Etymologically indebted to Latin … Read more
Cellphone cameras have moved from a single lens to a dual lens arrangement in recent years and the next iPhone is rumored to have three. There’s “Monoscopic” vision, “Stereoscopic” vision, but what’s the word for “3-scopic” vision? Answer The words ‘triscopic’ and ‘triscopy’ appear in the heading of a scientific paper and in the text … Read more
I have the following table: On the last column, I have expressed the numbers in billions as it is mentioned at the top. However, I want the last number (Final sample size) to be expressed fully. Is there a way that I can be specific about the fact that this is the full number and … Read more
I have been reading “Gulliver’s Travels” (Otherwise known more verbosely as “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships”), and I have noticed that two-digit numbers are often written in the “German” style, that is it say that the … Read more
The names for the number 0 include “zero”, “cipher”, “null”, “naught”, “nought”, “love”, “duck”, “nil”, “nada”, “zilch”, “zip”, “o”, “aught”, and “ought”. There are various subtleties of usage amongst them all. Wikipedia Ok right. 0 has a lot of name. I am looking for a word to name a number or a group of number … Read more
When do you need to use the number of or the amount of with a noun? For example, “If people go to gyms more, they will increase their physical activity.” OR “If people go to gyms more, they will increase their amount of physical activity.” “The number of CO2 emissions dropped last year.” “CO2 emissions … Read more
My father served in the logistics branch of Indian armed forces and he had a very particular style of representing the number of items of a certain object. For example, he would use this sentence: Confirming the receipt of footballs (20 nos) and volleyballs (10 nos). OR Confirming the receipt of footballs (20 numbers) and … Read more
Most well-known style guides dictate that numbers should always be spelled out at the beginning of a sentence (Forty-seven percent of people…), even to the point of recommending rewriting to avoid spelling out awkwardly large numbers (In all, 5,260 people…). I have a bulleted list of percentages in which I would really like to start … Read more
This question was inspired by a tweet from the FakeUnicode Twitter account, a semi-novelty account sharing various examples in the wild of bugs, glitches and other unintended results from improperly implementing the Unicode character encoding standard. What are the English ordinal suffixes of various mathematical constants and concepts? Is it always -th? πᵗʰ 𝑒ᵗʰ ℎᵗʰ … Read more
