Numbers

I've been thinking of writing this for a while. But most of the time, I forgot about it by the time I had time to write.

A few years ago, while still working in IQ Group, I had a disagreement with a friend about numbers. I have forgotten the number, but it was probably 150 or 1500. Let's go with 1500. He said "one thousand five", which I interpreted as 1005 (one thousand and five). But he being Chinese-educated and highly confident, he scolded me and said that 1005 would be "one thousand oh oh five". -_-

I think after that incident, I interpreted numbers more carefully when they were spoken by Chinese. And I have been noticing in Motorola that people are also saying "one thousand five" when they mean 1500 (one thousand five hundred).

Curious, I searched online to see whether "one thousand five" is acceptable anywhere to refer to 1500. I found this post on Quora that gives you plenty of ways to say 1500, but none of them were "one thousand five". It seems that the most common are "one thousand five hundred" and "fifteen hundred".

I also found this website called CoolConversion.com which helps you convert numeral digits into words. (the link takes you to the conversion of 1500)

Answers.com also says that 1005 is "one thousand five".

And lastly, Google gives me these results:

I rest my case. :P