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Bookmark or Share- The largest, greatest, highest or biggest number ofI'm not a native speaker, and my teacher taught me to use "the biggest number of . . ." when comparing amounts of some things, but I've checked it in google which seems like "the largest, the greatest, the highest, and even the most number of. . ." are actually used more often. 1. Which do we usually use for comparing numbers or amounts of some ...
- word choice - What's the difference between "big" and "large ...Big can more often refer to nonmaterial elements: I have big doubts. Large is more quantifiable in material terms: I come from a large family of ten siblings. In formal writing (such as a letter used to apply for a job) one would use large (unless big is the idiomatic choice); I worked for a large company, not a big company. There's not a great ...
- When writing large numbers, should a comma be inserted?Of course, you can also use scientific notation, such as Avogadro’s famous number of 6.02 (well, 6.022 141 29) × 10²³ in “scientific” notation, or 6.02e23 in programmer notation. That would lead to a figure of 1.802 617 × 10¹² or 1.802617e+12 for the last figure, which helps in some regards and hurts in others. Heck, unless high ...
- How do you correctly say large numbersBack in high school my algebra teacher was extremely picky. If we were going to say the number 135, we would say one hundred thirty-five. If a person said one hundred and thirty-five my teacher would interpret that to mean 100.35. Was my algebra teacher wrong, or did Jon just waste over 80 hours counting to 100,000 incorrectly.
- nouns - Grammaticality of "a high number of" - English Language & Usage ...Saying "a large number of" or "many", in this case, is much better style, IMHO, but it's not ungrammatical. Style is rarely judged as "correct" or "incorrect", except in contests for which a certain style has been prescribed and others have been proscribed.
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