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Hate saying numbers at work in English? This one is for you

Confident Business English

CHAPTER

How to Communicate a Million Dollar Project

I'm going to teach you a trick actually here with millions because it's not very common. Normally, the maximum will do is two numbers after the decimal point so we'll say 1.67 million or 15.51 million. The key thing you have to remember there is that it's not 15.55 million. So each of the numbers is said individually which I know is a little bit different than other languages but that's how it works in English. And another really key thing here is I'm not saying 15.6 million. That's another common mistake. There's no S,15.6 million, 19.8 million,. 12.4 million, 25.55 million,

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