Please, help me to puzzle it out:) I've read the sentense in the text about school: "There are about one 600 pupils". The author writes how large the school is. I understand the meaning of the phrase, but don't know how to read and understand "one 600 pupils" - does it mean "one thousand and six hundred"? Thank you!
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1Welcome to ELL.SE. Context is essential to meaning; where did you read this sentence? What are the surrounding sentences? It currently makes no sense; you would not normally write "about one 600 pupils," but we have no idea what was intended. Please edit your post to include more detail.– chosterApr 9, 2019 at 21:16
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Hello, thanks a lot for answering! I've edited the post and I hope it's more informative now)– NiaApr 9, 2019 at 21:22
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1Are you certain you are transcribing faithfully? About 1 600 would be conventional, and about one-six hundred can be explained, but about one 600 is neither here nor there, and would be taken as erroneous, so there is no way to know what the intended meaning is unless you ask the author.– chosterApr 9, 2019 at 21:32
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Yeah, there's something wrong with the text, I guess... But it was taken from our English text book) Thank you very much!:)– NiaApr 9, 2019 at 21:53
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This is not a standard way of expressing a number. You must say "one thousand six hundred" if you mean 1600. (it is possible to say sixteen hundred but this is rarer).
It is not possible to say "one six hundred" to mean 1600, or any other number. So the quoted text contains a mistake that makes it hard to understand. It could be a mistaken way of saying "one thousand six hundred", or it could a speaking error (The speaker meant to say 600, but accidentally said "one", then corrected himself)
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