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In US English and is used only to separate Dollars and cents. 101 is written One hundred one with no and. US$ 101.50 would be written as US Dollar One hundred One and Fifty cents. Where the amount is a whole number (no cents), it is terminated by the word Only: Dollars One hundred One only. Share.
So "one-hundred and fifty" would be 100 + 50 where "one-hundred fifty" would be 150. That being said, "one-hundred and fifty thousand" is commonly interpreted as 150,000, not 100 + 50,000. As such, it was my understanding that the "and" usage be limited as confusion can and does occur.
Here in India, it is actually common for 'one fifty' to mean 'one hundred fifty'. That is, we are not changing units of parlance in this case like we might change when talking in bigger numbers, e.g. 5-6 instead of 5-6 thousand (talking in terms of thousands, understood by both speaker and listener).
If bins have 450, 1,100, 2,000, and 5,700 items, they might be read as "four hundred fifty, eleven hundred, two thousand, and fifty-seven hundred". If, however, the quantities had been 453, 1,100, 2,017, and 5,706, then they should be read as "four hundred fifty-three, one thousand one hundred, two thousand seventeen, and five thousand seven ...
Here is two dollars. The amount, in these examples is taken as a singular value. Here is a ten minute part of the movie. Here are the ten minutes of the movie. Here are the two dollars. The focus is shifted to the number of minutes, as opposed to a part of the movie.
Back in high school my algebra teacher was extremely picky. If we were going to say the number 135, we would say one hundred thirty-five. If a person said one hundred and thirty-five my teacher would interpret that to mean 100.35. Was my algebra teacher wrong, or did Jon just waste over 80 hours counting to 100,000 incorrectly.
You can earn from one million to five million dollars. You can earn from five hundred to five million dollars. You can earn from $5 hundred to $5 million. Since the key is to be consistent and keep it simple, I would suggest writing your range of numbers like this: between $4.5 billion and $5.2 billion
After some thought, my best answer was I tended to say "fifteen hundred" when dealing with abstract things ("fifteen hundred dollars") that I tend to think of as a unit (when I think of $1500, I think of that sum, not of 1500 individual dollar bills), but "one thousand five hundred" when dealing with countable objects, like "there are one ...
one hundred dollars; a bet of one hundred dollars He'd go a buck and a half apiece for as many as I could get… The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English . Here is the novel where the phrase is taken from, The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins, published 1972
In the US, I was taught that you use and when there's a decimal: 13.5 = "thirteen and a half" or 1.3 = "one and a third" or 1,345.257 = "one thousand three-hundred forty-five and two-hundred fifty-seven thousandths".