I don't think I've ever done one of these quizzes where my strategy had such a big impact. I went through, letter by letter, and did terribly. Then, I tried again, this time filling in z e r and o, then n, then t w, and so on - and finished easily. Not sure I'd have done that without already seeing the answers for c and p though.
kgoodsir, Zimbabwe used to use the Zimbabwean dollar as currency, but discontinued using it after a period of hyperinflation. When they changed currencies, the exchange rate was one US dollar to 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars.
but 1285, for instance, is not "One Thousand, two hundred and eighty five" in the correct sense, most people will say "and", but the correct way excludes it.
Why is 'and' not part of the word though, especially if people add the 'and' when they say it (except some Americans). The French use 'et un' for their numbers '21', '31', '41', '51' and '61', and for '71' they use 'et onze'... it's part of the written format. Back in the olden days of cheques (which can still be used today if people so choose', you have to write out the whole number, including the 'and's for the bank, who deal with numbers every single day. Nothing against you personally, by the way, just getting the point across to those making the same point as you and yours is the first...
Whether or not using "and" is 'correct' or 'incorrect', it's ultimately somewhat trivial in this quiz as it only effects the answer to Letter A. Choosing to exclude 'and' means that it takes just a little more thinking to get the answer :-)
In the UK the "correct" way is definitely to use "and". Excluding the word is fine, but I think people saying it is "incorrect" to include "and" are definitely wrong.
right..."and" is NOT part of the spelling. In fact, it's a common trivia question "What is the first number to contain the letter "A" and most people will say one hundred AND one, but it's One Thousand because no number contains the word "and"
Nought (or Naught) is not really slang, it means nothing and can be used as a number. It is not a slang term for zero but a word for nothing...... as in "All his worry was for nought" or "It was all for naught" etc.
Just discovered this quiz - pretty cool - and the stats page, showing the % of people getting each amount out of 24, has thrown up quite an unusual distribution of scores.
This may sound ridiculous, but I'm convinced the game 'cookie clicker' is what enabled me to get all of them first try... Finally a use for knowing alot of the '-illions'.
There technically is actually a number whose name contains K, which is a Killillion, but the number itself is astronomically huge. 3,000 zeroes are needed to just write down its scientific notation.
Fun quiz though
It would probably be better to use numbers starting from 1 instead?
nought
Dictionary result for nought
/nɔːt/
noun
British
noun: nought; plural noun: noughts
1.
the digit 0.
synonyms: nil, zero, 0; More
love;
a duck;
datedcipher
"Richard Scott went for nought, caught behind by Bishop"
pronoun
pronoun: nought
1.
variant spelling of naught.
synonyms: nothing, nothing at all, naught; More