How do you say 999,999,999

In words, 999,999,999 is nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine.

When you write a long number, you use commas to separate periods. Periods are simply groups of three numbers. They help make long numbers more readable. For example, here’s about as long a number as you’ll ever see: 234,845,021,349,230,467,304.

The following list breaks this number down into periods.

Quintillions 234

Quadrillions 845

Trillions 021

Billions 349

Millions 230

Thousands 467

Ones 304

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Tuesday, June 28 2016
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