Words in Numbers

Numbers are special words (or compound words) that have two forms of writing: a version with letters (ONE, TWO, THREE, etc.) and a version with numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.), which is much more commonly used in everyday life.

Number writing is used for its simplicity (a more abbreviated notation) and ease of understanding. It is also the preferred mathematical writing system due to its conciseness and readability.

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.

When a number becomes long (for large numbers), it is easier to read it by dividing it into groups of three digits, starting from the right. Each group is then read separately, associating it with the word that corresponds to its power of ten (thousand, million, billion, etc.).

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.

To improve the readability of large numbers, a comma is often inserted every three digits to the left of the decimal point.

The International System of Units recommends, in this case, the use of the trailing non-breaking 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.