Words in Numbers

Numbers are particular words (or compound words) which have a writing in letters (ONE, TWO, THREE, etc.) but also, more commonly a dedicated writing in numbers (1, 2, 3, etc).

Numerical writing is used for its simplicity (more abbreviated notation) and its ease of understanding, it is also the preferred mathematical writing.

Conversion is based on English writing rules. The writing of numbers in whole letters in English follows some syntactic rules. dCode reads the words and recomposes the numbers.

dCode provides another tool for writing numbers into letters.

To read large numbers, divide the number into groups of three digits (starting from the right). Then read each group using the corresponding words, adding the name of the appropriate power of ten (thousand, million, billion, etc.) between each group.

Beyond billions, it is better to use the scientific notation, if it is not the case, here is a table of the names of the big numbers:

Among the greatest numbers with a name, there are also more exotic names like the gogol which is worth $ 10^{100} $ that is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros or the gogolplex which is worth $ 10^{10^{100}} $ or the number 1 followed by a gogol of zeros.

A comma is sometimes positioned every 3 digits to the left of the decimal point (especially for large numbers, so that they are easy to read).

The international system of units recommends the use of   (thin space).

Cardinal numbers, such as one, two, three, etc., indicate a quantity or value (1, 2, 3, etc.).

Ordinal numbers, like first, second, third, etc., indicate order or position in a sequence.