[math-fun] spaghetti past eight

Phil Carmody>twenty three hundred and oneths? block([fancy_display:false],for x in [23/101,20/301] do print(x=number_string(x)))$ 23 --- = twenty-three one hundred firsts 101 20 --- = twenty three hundred firsts 301

One thing that used to drive both my (US) girlfriend and (UK) me absolutely mad was hearing sports commentators say things like "X has beaten Y by three one thousandths of a second". "Three thousandths!" we'd both shout at the idiot box simultaneously. I don't know how widespread such ire is though.

Narrowly, I hope. "X has beaten Y by three thousandths of a second" to me means some unspecified number of thirds of a millisecond, e.g., 17/3000. That "redundant" "one" is what saves our 23/101 vs 20/301. --rwg