Figures & Trends – English Online https://english.baumfuchs.de A supplement to Daniel's Business English classes at HNEE Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:44:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 The weird world of numbers https://english.baumfuchs.de/2016/03/28/the-weird-world-of-numbers/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:29:33 +0000 http://english.baumfuchs.de/?p=2257 Last week we did some maths, trying to compute the side length of a cube that would contain our average yearly per-capita oil consumption in the Western countries.

If you’re more deeply interested in how mathematics work in English, I can recommend a wonderful series of videos by the wonderfully enthusiastic Dr James Grime and his colleagues. Here’s an example:

Go and check out the rest at their YouTube channel, Numberphile.

]]> How to write numbers https://english.baumfuchs.de/2015/11/23/how-to-write-numbers/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:00:15 +0000 http://english.baumfuchs.de/?p=1667 Here is a handout in German about how to write numbers, amounts of money and, as a bonus, dates, in English.

Schreibweise von Zahlen

Fun fact: Have you ever noticed that the keypads on a telephone and a pocket calculator, although very similar, are reversed in their arrangement of numbers?

Keypads

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