Editing English numerals (section)

==Special names==
{{see also|Number prefix#Table of number prefixes in English|Anniversary#Anniversary names}}
Some numbers have special names in addition to their regular names, most depending on context.

* 0:
**''zero:'' formal scientific usage
** ''nought:'' mostly British usage, common in science to refer to subscript 0 indicating an initial state
**''naught'': archaic term for nothingness, which may or may not be equivalent to the number; mostly American usage, old-fashioned spelling of ''nought''
**''aught:'' proscribed but still occasionally used when a digit is 0 (as in "thirty-aught-six", the [[.30-06 Springfield]] rifle [[cartridge (firearms)|cartridge]] and by association guns that fire it). [[Aughts]] also refers to the decade of 2000–2009 in American English. 
**''oh:'' used when spelling numbers (like telephone, bank account, bus line [British: bus route]) but can cause confusion with the letter [[o]] if reading a mix of numbers and letters
**''nil:'' in general sport scores, British usage (''"The score is two–nil."'')
**''nothing:'' in general sport scores, American usage (''"The score is two–nothing."'')
**''null:'' to an object or idea related to nothingness. The [[0 (number)|0]]th [[aleph number]] (<math>\aleph_0</math>) is pronounced "aleph-null".
**''love:'' in [[tennis]], [[badminton]], [[squash (sport)|squash]] and similar sports (origin disputed, said by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] to be from the idea that when one does a thing "for love", that is for no monetary gain, the word "love" implies "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from {{langx|fr|l'œuf|lit=the egg}}, due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted)
**''zilch, ''{{Lang|es|nada}} ([[List of English words of Spanish origin|from Spanish]])'', zip:'' used informally when stressing nothingness; this is true especially in combination with one another (''"You know nothing&mdash;zero, zip, {{Lang|es|nada}}, zilch!"''); American usage
**''nix:'' also used as a verb; mostly American usage
**''cypher / cipher:'' archaic, from French {{Lang|fr|chiffre}}, in turn from [[Arabic]] {{Lang|ar|sifr}}, meaning zero
**''goose egg'' (informal)
**''duck'' (used in cricket when a batsman is dismissed without scoring)
**''[[wikt:blank#Noun|blank]]'' the half of a domino tile with no pips
*1:
** ''[[Ace (disambiguation)|ace]]'' in certain sports and games, as in tennis or golf, indicating success with one stroke, and the face of a die, playing card or domino half with one pip
** ''birdie'' in golf denotes one stroke less than [[par (golf)|par]], and ''bogey'', one stroke more than par
** ''[[wikt:solo|solo]]''
** ''unit''
** ''[[linear equation|linear]]'' the [[degree of a polynomial]] is 1; also for explicitly denoting the first power of a unit: ''linear metre''
** ''[[unity (mathematics)|unity]]'' in mathematics
** ''[[protagonist]]'' first actor in [[theatre of Ancient Greece]], similarly ''[[Proto-Isaiah]]'' and ''[[proton (physics)|proton]]''
*2:
** ''[[wikt:couple|couple]]''
** ''brace'', from [[Old French]] "arms" (the plural of arm), as in "what can be held in two arms".
** ''[[wikt:pair|pair]]''
** ''[[deuce (disambiguation)|deuce]]'' the face of a die, playing card or domino half with two pips
** ''eagle'' in golf denotes two strokes less than par
** ''[[wikt:duo|duo]]''
** ''[[quadratic equation|quadratic]]'' the degree of a polynomial is 2
*** also ''[[square (algebra)|square]]'' or ''squared'' for denoting the second power of a unit: ''square metre'' or ''metre squared''
** ''[[wikt:penultimate|penultimate]]'', second from the end
** ''[[deuteragonist]]'' second actor in theatre of Ancient Greece, similarly ''[[Deutero-Isaiah]]'' and ''[[deuteron]]''
*3:
** ''[[trey (disambiguation)|trey]]'' the face of a die or playing card with three pips, a three-point field goal in basketball, nickname for the third carrier of the same personal name in a family 
** ''[[wikt:trio|trio]]''
** ''[[wikt:trips|trips]]:'' three-of-a-kind in a poker hand. a player has three cards with the same numerical value
** ''[[cubic equation|cubic]]'' the degree of a polynomial is 3
*** also ''[[Cube (algebra)|cube]]'' or ''cubed'' for denoting the third power of a unit: ''cubic metre'' or ''metre cubed''
** ''albatross'' in golf denotes three strokes less than par. Sometimes called ''double eagle''
** ''[[hat-trick]]'' or ''hat trick'': achievement of three feats in sport or other contexts<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford English Dictionary|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/84597|access-date=26 December 2014|chapter=Hat trick, n.}}</ref>
** ''[[wikt:antepenultimate|antepenultimate]]'' third from the end
** ''[[tritagonist]]'' third actor in theatre of Ancient Greece, similarly ''[[Trito-Isaiah]]'' and ''[[Triton (physics)|triton]]''
** ''[[Turkey (bowling)|turkey]]'' in bowling, three consecutive strikes
*4:
** ''cater:'' (rare) the face of a die or playing card with four pips
** ''[[quartet]]''
** ''[[quartic equation|quartic]]'' or ''biquadratic'' the degree of a polynomial is 4
** ''[[wikt:quad|quad]]'' (short for ''quadruple'' or the like) several specialized sets of four, such as four of a kind in poker, a carburetor with four inputs, etc.,
** ''condor'' in golf denotes four strokes less than par 
** ''[[wikt:preantepenultimate|preantepenultimate]]'' fourth from the end
*5:
** ''cinque'' or ''cinq'' (rare) the face of a die or playing card with five pips
** ''[[quintet]]''
** ''nickel'' (informal American, from the value of the five-cent [[nickel (United States coin)|US nickel]], but applied in non-monetary references)
** ''[[quintic equation|quintic]]'' the degree of a polynomial is 5
** ''[[wikt:quint|quint]]'' (short for ''quintuplet'' or the like) several specialized sets of five, such as quintuplets, etc.
*6:
** ''half a dozen''
** ''[[wikt:sice|sice]]'' (rare) the face of a die or playing card with six pips
** ''[[sextet]]''
** ''[[sextic equation|sextic]]'' or ''hectic'' the degree of a polynomial is 6
*7:
** ''[[septet]]''
** ''[[septic equation|septic]]'' or ''heptic'' the degree of a polynomial is 7
*8:
** ''[[octet (disambiguation)|octet]]''
*9:
** ''[[nonet (disambiguation)|nonet]]''
*10:
** ''dime'' (informal American, from the value of the ten-cent [[dime (United States coin)|US dime]], but applied in non-monetary references)
** ''[[decet (disambiguation)|decet]]''
**[[Decade (disambiguation)|decade]], used for years but also other groups of 10 as in [[rosary]] prayers or [[Braille]] symbols
* 11:
** ''[[undecet]]''
** a [[wikt:banker's dozen|banker's dozen]]
* 12: 
** ''[[duodecet]]''
** a [[dozen]] (first [[exponentiation|power]] of the [[duodecimal]] base), used mostly in commerce
* 13: a [[baker's dozen]]
* 20: a [[20 (number)|score]] (first power of the [[vigesimal]] base), nowadays archaic; famously used in the opening of the [[Gettysburg Address]]: ''"Four score and seven years ago..."'' The [[Number of the beast|Number of the Beast]] in the [[King James Version of the Bible|King James Bible]] is rendered "Six hundred threescore and six".  Also in The Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 90 as used in the Burial Service—"The days of our age are threescore years and ten; ...."
*25: a ''pony'' is a bet of £25 in British betting slang.
*50: half-[[century]], literally half of a hundred, usually used in [[cricket]] scores.
*55: [[wikt:double-nickel|double-nickel]] (informal American)
*60: a ''shock'': historical commercial count, described as "three scores".<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford English Dictionary|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/178401|access-date=26 December 2014|chapter=Shock, n.2}}</ref>
*100:
**A [[century]], also used in [[cricket]] scores and in [[cycling]] for 100 miles.
**A [[ton]], in Commonwealth English, the speed of 100&nbsp;mph<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ton?s=t|title=the definition of ton}}</ref> or 100&nbsp;km/h.
**A ''small hundred'' or ''short hundred'' (archaic, see 120 below)
*120:
**A [[great hundred]] or long hundred (twelve tens; as opposed to the ''small hundred'', i.e. 100 or ten tens), also called [[small gross]] (ten dozens), both archaic
**Also sometimes referred to as ''duodecimal hundred'', although that could literally also mean 144, which is twelve squared
* 144: a [[Gross (unit)|gross]] (a dozen dozens, second power of the duodecimal base), used mostly in commerce
* 500:
** a ream, usually of paper.
** a ''monkey'' is a bet of £500 in British betting slang.
* 1000: 
**a [[1000 (number)|grand]], colloquially used especially when referring to money, also in fractions and multiples, e.g. half a grand, two grand, etc. Grand can also be shortened to "G" in many cases.
**K, originally from the abbreviation of kilo-, e.g. "He only makes $20K a year."
**[[Millennium]] (plural: ''millennia''), a period of one thousand years.
**[[kilo-]] (Greek for "one thousand"), a decimal unit prefix in the [[Metric system]] denoting multiplication by "one thousand". For example: 1 kilometre = 1000 metres.
* 1728: a [[great gross]] (a dozen gross, third power of the duodecimal base), used historically in commerce
* 10,000: a [[myriad]] (a hundred hundred), commonly used in the sense of an indefinite very high number
* 100,000: a [[lakh]] (a hundred thousand), in Indian English
* 10,000,000: a [[crore]] (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000.
* 10<sup>100</sup>: [[googol]] (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics 
* 10<sup>[[googol]]</sup>: [[googolplex]] (1 followed by a googol of zeros)
* 10<sup>[[googolplex]]</sup>: [[googolplexplex]] (1 followed by a googolplex of zeros)

Combinations of numbers in most sports scores are read as in the following examples:
* 1&ndash;0 &nbsp;&nbsp; British English: ''one-nil''; American English: ''one-nothing'', ''one-zip'', or ''one-zero''
* 0&ndash;0 &nbsp;&nbsp; British English: ''nil-nil'' or  ''nil all''; American English: ''zero-zero'' or ''nothing-nothing'', (occasionally ''scoreless'' or ''no score'')
* 2&ndash;2 &nbsp;&nbsp; ''two-two'' or ''two all''; American English also ''twos'', ''two to two'', ''even at two'', or ''two up''.

Naming conventions of [[Tennis score]]s (and related sports) are different from other sports.

The centuries of Italian culture have names in English borrowed from Italian: 
* [[duecento]] "(one thousand and) two hundred" for the years 1200 to 1299, or approximately 13th century
* [[trecento]] 14th century
* [[quattrocento]] 15th century
* [[cinquecento]] 16th century
* [[seicento]] 17th century
* [[settecento]] 18th century
* [[wikt:Ottocento|ottocento]] 19th century
* [[wikt:Novecento|novecento]] 20th century
* [[wikt:ventesimo|ventesimo]] 21st century

When reading numbers in a sequence, such as a telephone or serial number, British people will usually use the terms ''double'' followed by the repeated number. Hence [[James Bond|007]] is ''double oh seven''. Exceptions are the emergency telephone number [[999 (emergency telephone number)|999]], which is always ''nine nine nine'' and the apocalyptic "[[Number of the beast|Number of the Beast]]", which is always ''six six six''. In the US, [[9-1-1|911]] (the US emergency telephone number) is usually read ''nine one one'', while 9/11 (in reference to the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001, attacks]]) is usually read ''nine eleven''.