[Jprogramming] Numbers in French

[Björn Helgason]

Some people say two thousend and seven
I have also heard twenty hundred and seven

2007/6/14, Dan Baronet <dbaronet at yahoo.com>:
>
> Roger,
> as Pascal pointed out there are a few official variations on some numbers.
> There are also many local variations on other numbers and you will always
> find someone to
> "laugh at you" whatever you say. For example ask many people on the street
> about number
> >1e8 and you're likely to get more than 1 unique answer. This is probably
> true of other
> languages as well.
>
> There is only a few things I added to Pascal's comments, below.
>
> --- Roger Hui <rhui000 at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > I am contemplating adding a French section to
> > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Number_in_Words
> > I would appreciate it if members of Forum whose
> > mother tongue is French can verify or correct
> > the following description:
> >
> > The name in French of a non-negative integer
> > is formed on groups of 3 digits, starting from
> > the right.  Each group is suffixed with the name
> > of the unit, and a group of three 0-digits
> > is omitted (unless all groups are all 0-digits,
> > in which case the name is "zéro").
> >
> > French units (10^3*k) are the same as English
> > units with "mille" replacing "thousand",
> > "milliard" replacing "billion", and "décillion"
> > replacing "decillion".  (Will I be laughed
> > at if I use "billion" instead of "milliard"?)
> >
> > There are a few idiomatic rules:
> >
> > a. 71 is "soixante et onze" but 72 is
> > "soixante-douze", 73 is "soixante-treis", etc.
> > (Will I be laughed at if I say "soixante-onze"?)
>
> 13= treize
>
> > b. 10,000 is "dix-millièmes" even though
> > 9,000 is "neuf mille" and 11,000 is "onze mille".
> > (Will I be laughed at if I say "dix mille"?)
>
> you will be laughed at if you say "dix-millièmes"
>
> > c. Numbers between 100 and 199 omit the
> > leading "un".  Thus 175 is "cent soixante-quinze"
> > but 275 is "deux cents soixante-quinze".
>
> 'cent' only takes an 's' if preceded by >1 (cannot be 1 as you said) and
> NOT followed by
> anything so here it should be "deux cent soixante-quinze". 200 would be
> "deux cents".
>
> > d. Likewise, numbers between 1000 and 1999 omit
> > the leading "un".
>
> 'mille' never changes BTW even with >1 before
>
> > 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...
>
> Cheers
> /Dan
>
>
>
>
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