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Can you think of any other measuring instruments that you have already seen in your school

laboratory or in your Mechanics school book?

Translate their names into English with the help of a dictionary and list them in the chart below.

Measuring equipment

English translation

D

Calculating

Note there is often more than one way of saying the same thing.

plus

is

10 + 5 = 15

ten

five

fifteen

and

equals

B

You can use

oh

,

nought

,

zero

,

nil

or

love

for

saying 0 it depends on the situations.

oh

after a decimal point

in telephone numbers

in bus numbers

in years

nought

before the decimal point

zero

for the number

for temperature

nil

in football/team game scores

in everyday speech to mean nothing

love

only in tennis scores

C

Squares, cubes, and roots.

10

-3

ten to the power of minus three

10²

ten squared

10³

ten cubed

10

4

ten to the power of four

√

10

the square root of ten

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Saying numbers

A

In English, a

dot

(

.

) is used in decimals and not a

comma

(

,

). For decimals, it is called a

point

.

Commas are used in figures only when writing thousands.

20.001 twenty point oh oh one

20,001 twenty thousand and one

When accounts are prepared on computers, commas are not used. So the number 75,605

appears as 75605

All the numbers after a decimal point are read separately.

10.66

ten point six six

0.325 nought point three two five

0.01

nought point oh one

Measuring instruments

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