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79. Psalm appointed for the Fourth Sunday in Lent in Year B in "The Book of Common Prayer".
80. Number associated with the Silhouette romance novel which has a title consisting of these three words in this order:
a. Aerosmith’s biggest charting song of the 1980s.
b. The chemical symbol for the only currently discovered radioactive halogen.
c. Adjective used to describe the deceased trucker in "Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure".
81. First natural number pronounced with six syllables (NOTE: "And" in proper numerical speaking indicates a decimal, e.g. "one hundred one" = 101, but "one hundred and one" = 100.1).
Comments
Would, say 1.07 be One and seven, one and seven thousandths, or are you even accepting decimals?
Posted by: WWG | Sep 3, 2004 8:18:45 PM
Numbers with digits after the decimal are not "natural" numbers by definition.
Posted by: JmSR | Sep 3, 2004 8:31:59 PM
I used to try to teach my math students to think of the word "and" as a decimal point when saying a number, but we also state the denominator, so I would say "one hundred and one tenth" for 100.1 and 1.07 would be "one and seven hundredths" (not thousandths).
Some schoolgirl took Fred Willard to task for always inserting an "and" in the ages of his daily centenarians--"Hilda Smith of Hogwash, Missouri, who is a hundred and seven today..." He struggled for a short time to say "one hundred seven" but soon gave up, no more able to undo the bad habit than George Bush can pronounce "nuclear".
An example of a potential ambiguity would be "two hundred three thousandths" vs "two hundred and three thousandths". The former is .203, the latter 200.003.
Posted by: Bob Lodge | Sep 4, 2004 1:40:15 AM
#79 Psalm 122
#80 Angel At Large is Silhouette #867
#81 111
Posted by: JmSR | Oct 20, 2004 8:35:17 AM
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