From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-08-12, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
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   > There are other possible examples:   
   >   
   > "The lot is twelve hundred square meters"   
   >   
   > "The rent is fourteen hundred X per month"   
   >   
   > Point is that using "hundreds" when there is more than 1000   
   > does happen quite frequently.   
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   The difference is that those are explicit multiples of a value (ie: 100).   
   The standalone plural "hundreds" means something different.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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