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If the number is 100.32, which option is correct?

  1. One hundred point thirty-two.

  2. One hundred point three two.

KillingTime
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bloomer_xx
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  • Please take the [Tour] and do some research before posting. An English language site on basic mathematics will explain the logic behind the standard English language usage. If, as I suspect, you are not a native English speaker, you might look on English Language Learners, where I imagine this will have already been asked. – David Jan 07 '22 at 20:28
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    (1) is incorrect, because "thirty-two" means 3 tens and 2 units, whereas the fractional part here is 3 tenths and 2 hundredths. It also doesn't distinguish from 100.032. – Weather Vane Jan 07 '22 at 20:34
  • @WeatherVane I disagree. "One-hundred point thirty-two" is quite natural to me for 100.32. OTOH, 100.032 would be said "One hundred point zero three two" or "One hundred point zero thirty-two". (For enunciation into a noisy channel, I would say "one zero zero point zero three two.) – Jack O'Flaherty Jan 07 '22 at 20:41
  • https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/02/decimal-point.html i read this article, thats why i don't know what is correct option – bloomer_xx Jan 07 '22 at 20:44
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    The blog starts with "When you’re speaking or writing numbers, the word “and” is actually the decimal point. So one hundred thirty-two is 132, but one hundred and thirty-two is 100.32". That's complete nonsense: "One hundred and thirty-two" and "One hundred thirty-two" both mean 132. – Weather Vane Jan 07 '22 at 20:50
  • @Weather Vane: To be fair, that's a question, which the blogger corrects in the very next paragraph. – Old Brixtonian Jan 07 '22 at 21:00
  • @OldBrixtonian yes, it goes on to say what I wrote. I didn't read far enough. – Weather Vane Jan 07 '22 at 21:02
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    @bloomer_xx: At that grammarphobia link, Q means it's a question. The answer, marked A, tells the questioner, "This is a common misconception, but in spoken or written numbers the conjunction “and” does not mean decimal point. " Weather Vane has explained that "thirty-two" means 3 tens and 2 units. For 100.32 we say "one hundred point three two". – Old Brixtonian Jan 07 '22 at 21:06
  • Interestingly, when I was in elementary school we were taught to never say “and” in the whole number part: “one hundred thirty two not one hundred and thirty two.” And to use the and only as the decimal point *but then* one had to also specify the fraction: One hundred thirty two and twenty nine hundredths. Of course nobody does this- me included. So as @WeatherVane says: one hundred and thirty two = 132. But one hundred and thirty two hundredths = 100.32 And if you’re a machinist it’d be one hundred and three hundred and twenty thousandths. – Jim Jan 08 '22 at 00:35

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