Prealgebra for Two-Year Colleges/Appendix (procedures)/Reading Decimal Numbers

The word and is used only for the decimal point; And is also used to separate a whole number and a fraction. A comma is used at every third place, starting at the decimal point and moving left.Business Mathematics, 10th Edition. Authors are Charles D. Miller, Stanley A. Salzman, and Gary Clendenen. Published in 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. 0-321-27782-1Any thorough English arithmetic text discusses the reading of decimal numerals. Frequently a comma or space is used at every third place moving to the right of the decimal point. Additionally, no comma is used before and. Also, all decimals end in ths except unitary decimals that end in th. Decimal numeral Reading thereof 2,697,787.84 two million, six hundred ninety-seven thousand, seven hundred eighty-seven and eighty-four hundredths2,009 two thousand, nine1,987 one thousand, nine hundred eighty-seven0.684six hundred eighty-four thousandths17.04seventeen and four hundredths0.1one tenth4.3four and three tenths0.000,1one ten-thousandth5.000,008five and eight millionths0.000,73seventy-three hundred-thousandths References and notes