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Set a lower bound for ambiguous number phrase
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)How to use “tens of” and “hundreds of”?“Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers”“Lower number” vs. “smaller number”Is there a verb that fits in the pattern: quarter, third, halve (divide), [???], double, triple, quadruple. . .?order of magnitude of words describing the size of a groupIs it technically correct to describe normal figures and text figures as upper case and lower case numbers?Why do ten and twenty get unique words?Why does “I never recognize 90% of the people” mean “I never recognize more than 10% of the people”?Use of numbered lists in running textHundreds of times higher?
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Would this make sense, to say a number between 100 and 10,000?:
'Potentially hundreds of hundreds'
More specifically, if I say 'potentially hundreds of hundreds', does this mean '(potentially hundreds)*hundreds' or 'potentially (hundreds of hundreds)'? If it is the former, my initial question would be true - it is potentially hundreds, but can't be zero. If it is the latter, it would mean that there either is 10,000, or none. Are these assumptions correct, and if so, which of the two interpretations would apply?
ambiguity numbers
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
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Would this make sense, to say a number between 100 and 10,000?:
'Potentially hundreds of hundreds'
More specifically, if I say 'potentially hundreds of hundreds', does this mean '(potentially hundreds)*hundreds' or 'potentially (hundreds of hundreds)'? If it is the former, my initial question would be true - it is potentially hundreds, but can't be zero. If it is the latter, it would mean that there either is 10,000, or none. Are these assumptions correct, and if so, which of the two interpretations would apply?
ambiguity numbers
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
1032
1
I think most people would just interpret this as an indeterminate number equivalent to "lots". If you want to be specific about the number then you, well, need to be specific; eg. "There are potentially between 100 and 10,000 items"
– James Random
4 hours ago
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I would say 'potentially hundreds or thousands'. Hundreds covers 100 to 999, and thousands covers 1,000 to 10,000.
– Michael Harvey
4 hours ago
1
'Hundreds of hundreds' from a mathematical perspective would mean a number above 10,000 given that 100 x 100 = 10,000 and 200 x 200 = 40,000. Not really a grammatical response, but I'd be inclined to favour the response by @MichaelHarvey
– Manhatton
52 mins ago
Another suggestion: "potentially up to tens of thousands".
– TrevorD
35 mins ago
add a comment |
Would this make sense, to say a number between 100 and 10,000?:
'Potentially hundreds of hundreds'
More specifically, if I say 'potentially hundreds of hundreds', does this mean '(potentially hundreds)*hundreds' or 'potentially (hundreds of hundreds)'? If it is the former, my initial question would be true - it is potentially hundreds, but can't be zero. If it is the latter, it would mean that there either is 10,000, or none. Are these assumptions correct, and if so, which of the two interpretations would apply?
ambiguity numbers
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
1032
Would this make sense, to say a number between 100 and 10,000?:
'Potentially hundreds of hundreds'
More specifically, if I say 'potentially hundreds of hundreds', does this mean '(potentially hundreds)*hundreds' or 'potentially (hundreds of hundreds)'? If it is the former, my initial question would be true - it is potentially hundreds, but can't be zero. If it is the latter, it would mean that there either is 10,000, or none. Are these assumptions correct, and if so, which of the two interpretations would apply?
ambiguity numbers
ambiguity numbers
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
1032
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
1032
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
1032
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
1032
asked 4 hours ago
Geza KerecsenyiGeza Kerecsenyi
1032
1032
1
I think most people would just interpret this as an indeterminate number equivalent to "lots". If you want to be specific about the number then you, well, need to be specific; eg. "There are potentially between 100 and 10,000 items"
– James Random
4 hours ago
2
I would say 'potentially hundreds or thousands'. Hundreds covers 100 to 999, and thousands covers 1,000 to 10,000.
– Michael Harvey
4 hours ago
1
'Hundreds of hundreds' from a mathematical perspective would mean a number above 10,000 given that 100 x 100 = 10,000 and 200 x 200 = 40,000. Not really a grammatical response, but I'd be inclined to favour the response by @MichaelHarvey
– Manhatton
52 mins ago
Another suggestion: "potentially up to tens of thousands".
– TrevorD
35 mins ago
add a comment |
1
I think most people would just interpret this as an indeterminate number equivalent to "lots". If you want to be specific about the number then you, well, need to be specific; eg. "There are potentially between 100 and 10,000 items"
– James Random
4 hours ago
2
I would say 'potentially hundreds or thousands'. Hundreds covers 100 to 999, and thousands covers 1,000 to 10,000.
– Michael Harvey
4 hours ago
1
'Hundreds of hundreds' from a mathematical perspective would mean a number above 10,000 given that 100 x 100 = 10,000 and 200 x 200 = 40,000. Not really a grammatical response, but I'd be inclined to favour the response by @MichaelHarvey
– Manhatton
52 mins ago
Another suggestion: "potentially up to tens of thousands".
– TrevorD
35 mins ago
1
1
I think most people would just interpret this as an indeterminate number equivalent to "lots". If you want to be specific about the number then you, well, need to be specific; eg. "There are potentially between 100 and 10,000 items"
– James Random
4 hours ago
I think most people would just interpret this as an indeterminate number equivalent to "lots". If you want to be specific about the number then you, well, need to be specific; eg. "There are potentially between 100 and 10,000 items"
– James Random
4 hours ago
2
2
I would say 'potentially hundreds or thousands'. Hundreds covers 100 to 999, and thousands covers 1,000 to 10,000.
– Michael Harvey
4 hours ago
I would say 'potentially hundreds or thousands'. Hundreds covers 100 to 999, and thousands covers 1,000 to 10,000.
– Michael Harvey
4 hours ago
1
1
'Hundreds of hundreds' from a mathematical perspective would mean a number above 10,000 given that 100 x 100 = 10,000 and 200 x 200 = 40,000. Not really a grammatical response, but I'd be inclined to favour the response by @MichaelHarvey
– Manhatton
52 mins ago
'Hundreds of hundreds' from a mathematical perspective would mean a number above 10,000 given that 100 x 100 = 10,000 and 200 x 200 = 40,000. Not really a grammatical response, but I'd be inclined to favour the response by @MichaelHarvey
– Manhatton
52 mins ago
Another suggestion: "potentially up to tens of thousands".
– TrevorD
35 mins ago
Another suggestion: "potentially up to tens of thousands".
– TrevorD
35 mins ago
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I think most people would just interpret this as an indeterminate number equivalent to "lots". If you want to be specific about the number then you, well, need to be specific; eg. "There are potentially between 100 and 10,000 items"
– James Random
4 hours ago
2
I would say 'potentially hundreds or thousands'. Hundreds covers 100 to 999, and thousands covers 1,000 to 10,000.
– Michael Harvey
4 hours ago
1
'Hundreds of hundreds' from a mathematical perspective would mean a number above 10,000 given that 100 x 100 = 10,000 and 200 x 200 = 40,000. Not really a grammatical response, but I'd be inclined to favour the response by @MichaelHarvey
– Manhatton
52 mins ago
Another suggestion: "potentially up to tens of thousands".
– TrevorD
35 mins ago