Sorry for that mistake : it should be written without the 2 's' as
"un milliard quatre million deux cent vingt-quatre mille"
Furthermore it is correct to use the character '-' when part of the number
is less than 100. For instance :
23370 is "Vingt-trois mille trois cent soixante-dix"
250 is "Deux cent cinquante"
Hope this helps
JCC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Hui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Programming forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Numbers in French
un milliard quatre millions deux cents
vingt-quatre mille
Do you mean to have the "s" on "millions" and
"cents"? The rule that Dan Baronet described
was no "s" after a unit name if it is not
the last word of the number phrase, and I have
seen the same description elsewhere.
----- Original Message -----
From: JC Coez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:10 am
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Numbers in French
>> e. After "million", "milliard" ("billion"), or
>> "trillion", there is a "de" before the trailing
>> words. Thus, 1,004,224,000 is "un milliard de
>> quatre millions de deux cents vingt-quatre mille".
>
> I never heard anyone add the 'de' but then again not too many
people I
> know use these
> numbers...
>
I personaly would say "un milliard quatre millions deux cents
vingt-quatre
mille" without 'de'.
JCC
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