I am a little puzzled. How do you read big numbers?

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The way I used to read 671,043, for instance, was six hundred and seventy-one thousand and forty-three, but I visited some websites where people don't put the word "and" after "hundred" anymore. Is this the new norm or they are wrong? Also, they don't use the hyphen between the tens and the units.

Update:

Thank you, Hannah and Justin. Your answers were really helpful.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Proper English grammar has never used the word "and" to describe one singular total. Take your number for instance, 671,043. The proper way to read it is, "six hundred seventy-one thousand forty-three."  To say "six hundred and seventy-one thousand and forty-three" is to be reading this math equation: 600 + 71,000 + 43.

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If you put the word "and" before any number it suggests that you are talking about decimals. You would say "six hundred seventy one thousand forty three" or else you are basically saying 6.71 .43

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I am a little puzzled. How do you read big numbers?

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