Definition
Number name
A number name gives a number’s value in spoken or written words.
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What it means
A numeral shows a number with digits. A number name says the same value with words. Read each place-value group in order. For whole numbers, a place containing zero usually contributes no place word, while connectors such as “and” depend on locale.
Remember it
Digits show it; words say the same value.
Example
The numeral 6,204 has the number name “six thousand two hundred four” in common US style and “six thousand two hundred and four” in common UK style. Both names represent the same value.
Watch for
The digit-by-digit reading “six two zero four” names the digits, not the whole number 6,204. Conventions for “and,” hyphens, separators, and large-number scales vary by locale.
Common mix-up
A numeral is the symbol form, such as 6,204; a number name is the word form.
Exact meaning
A number name is the spoken or written word form of a number, using place-value words such as hundred or thousand to express the same value as a numeral.