# How do you pronounce 0,75 or 3,24?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 11, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-0-75-or-3-24/376083 "2006-10-11T18:39:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-0-75-or-3-24/376083/41 "2006-10-13T04:23:31Z")

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[QUOTE=brewha]  
This is a little off topic, but according to my old roomate (who is a math major and generally anal about this kind of stuff), .75 should not be pronounced “point seven five.” He is convinced that it should only be pronounced " seventy five thousandths. 3.24? Three and twenty four thousandths. Any other pronunciation is wrong.

Anyone else heard of this?  
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Sounds to me like he hasn’t really got to grips with the decimal system, and wants to remain fractional.

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