What do you get as the result, and the remainder, if you divide eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven by three?

(In reply to re(3): the solution posted is WRONG!!!! by fwaff)

I fail to see the distinction between proper English and so-called American English; they are one and the same if you ask me. You, however, are not talking about proper English, you are talking about spoken English. The correct way to write out a number, like the one above, would be "twelve thousand one hundred eleven." That is also how it should be said aloud; the fact that most people add an "and" in no way changes what is "proper" or correct. 3.1 would usually be said aloud as "three point one," but written down it should always read as "three and one tenth." The "and" is always used to denote decimal or fractional parts of a number as a sum.
Pi to four decimal places, then, would be "three and one thousand four hundred sixteen ten-thousandths." Not very simple to type, which is why you rarely see long decimals typed out in word form.
I may add that I have never seen anything such as "three point one" typed out as such in any textbook or elsewhere.

As far as the number in the problem, I can live with "eleven thousand eleven hundred" (it is akin to numbers such as "eleventy one" to mean 111, etc). The "and eleven," as implied, denotes a sum, as in "two and thirty" or "four sccore and seven." So, the number stated is certainly not common or proper, but technically correct to mean 12111.

Posted by DJ on 2003-06-04 15:26:41