Post on 18-Dec-2015
English for Computing (Vocabulary)Week 4
Numbers Cardinal numbers:
Arabic: 1, 2, 3, 4, ...Roman: I, II, III, IV, ...
As in 1 ton, 2 tons
Ordinal numbers1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th
As in; the eleventh person, 22nd of May, April the
3rd
Nominal numbers As in +9140233451, or “87”
Fractions Ordinal:
a half (1/2) a third or one third (1/3), two thirds (2/3) a quarter (1/4), three quarters (3/4) a fifth or one fifth (1/5), 2 fifths (2/5) three thousandths (3/1000)
Mathematical: seventy over nine-hundred and two (70/902) five point six (5.6) Zero point six or point six (0.6 or .6)
Reading/Writing units Units:
10 kilograms, 5 miles, 5.2 meters 10 inches, 5 centimeters
Abbreviations: 10 kg: still re%ad as 10 kilograms 0.5 in: half an inch or zero point five inches
Scalars and other measures: 10 km/h: ten kilometers per hour 640x480: six forty by four eighty
Output devices: printers
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Output devices: display screens
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Processing
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