On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:03:36 Bill Potts wrote: >Dennis Brownridge wrote: >>... For example, 365 would be >> pronounced "three sixty-five"... >... > >So, can we agree to say "three point six five" for 3.65? <g> > Dennis' point, Bill, I guess, was that three sixty-five makes the decimal point sort of understood from how it's pronounced. In other words what is meant is 3 meters 65 centimeters, or 3 *point* sixty-five. No need to say the point word after all. This is the classic way we, in metric countries, go about saying measures around. We don't need to use the comma (not point) and the units involved. The context is already quite clear. And that's why I commented on saying one five for the case of 1500 mm. Because the one is understood to be meters and the five to be decimeters. If what's meant is 1050 mm then one would say one-oh-five, or one-zero-five. Marcus Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
