Higher numbers will simply be written as their original number. a hyphen is necessary to connect the tens place to the ones place when the ones place is not zero. After a hundred. In this article, we follow the APA Style Guidelines, one of the most commonly used style guides in academic writing. In general, words should be used for numbers zero through nine, and digits should be used beyond that. This is true for cardinal numbers, e.g. two, 11, and for ordinal numbers, e.g. second, ~ Long numbers. Commas are used in numbers to delimit units of thousands and millions. 1, 359. 2, 543, 678. In American English, can represent either a number or a pound, the unit of weight. Most often, it is the first sense that is used, except when it comes to the button of a telephone. In this case, you will find at least in the United States that automated voice menus accessible by phones will sometimes ask you to press the pound key. Any number ending in will have the ending “st”. Any number that ends in will get the ending “nd”. Any number that ends in will get the ending “rd”. Any number that ends in -9 will have the ending “e”. For example: 101st hundred and first. 42nd forty-second. To in spoken Arabic means “مية” meyya, not to be confused with mayya, which means “water” in spoken Arabic. When writing or counting in s, the pattern you will follow is “hundreds, singles, and tens.” For example, to means مائة وأربعة وعشرين Meyya wa arba'aa wa eishreen.