why americans use the word HUNDRED when they read numbers that have four digits? It is so confusing?

Question

to me. COuld you please explain and provide a few examples?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

cuz for a number to be called a hundred it has to have two zeroes after the other numbers. So this is one: 100 it's the number one and then two hundreds. So one- hundred. Then 7500 is like this, 75, and then two zeroes make it a hundred, seventy-five hundred. 75 and then 00 or hundred. I know it is confusing but thats how it is.

u can't say 7 five hundred. It has to be 75 hundred. Hopefully i made it better for u..

Answer 2

So, I'm curious, how do YOU refer to dates over the past thousand years? (esp. the century years -- from eleven hundred through nineteen hundred) I suspect that dates may be the origin of this practice, and that was around LONG before Americans .

Note that this way of breaking up the numbers -- extended to other years in the century, e.g. 1620 is "sixteen [hundred] twenty", 1776 is "seventeen seventy-six", etc., etc.

If you think about it, dividing these numbers into two groups of two is much easier (generally shorter) -- contrast. "one thousand nine hundred forty-seven" with "nineteen forty-seven"

Answer 3

It's mathematically correct.

Twenty two hundred means twenty two times one hundred which is two thousand and two hundred. It makes saying the number basically shorter.

Answer 4

i don't know we just do. we also say one oh one for one hundred and one. Like 4500=forty five hundred
6800=sixty eight hundred

Answer 5

there are not the only one, in France also we do it, generally to say years.

Answer 6

i dont know why
the american language is confuzzling