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

expand make or become largerslot openingbus channel, pathrun perform somethinglegible able to be read

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