Which it More correct, when filling out a check......???

[Sourdough]

One thousand & six hundred Dollars or Sixteen hundred Dollars.

 

[Tootsie]

No difference. Write whichever you want or have space for.
But, you wouldn’t need ‘&’ for the first one.

 

[Supervisor42]

One thousand & six hundred Dollars or Sixteen hundred Dollars.

One thousand six hundred dollars.
You want to make the words as long as possible on the line to make editing impossible.
I was taught old-school...
Imagine me making out a check for $1,643.68 .
Looks like this:
One thousand, six hundred fourty-three, and 68/100 dollars.

 

[Haertig]

-----One thousand six hundred dollars and no cents-----

 

[Sourdough]

I like to write large, so about sixty years ago I switch to ordering business size checks.

 

[Tirediron]

I had a customer who wrote XXXX hundred on checks and the bank kind of made a bit of a stink about it but always put them through. I agree on clear consise words on the word line. with a line if there was any space, same with the name part no space without a line

 

[Supervisor42]

I had a customer who wrote XXXX hundred on checks and the bank kind of made a bit of a stink about it but always put them through. I agree on clear consise words on the word line. with a line if there was any space, same with the name part no space without a line

Yes. If I write a check for $6.00 , it looks like this:
Six dollars and 00/100------------------------

 

[Patchouli]

One thousand six hundred forty three and 22/100 ------------------

 

[d_marsh]

What's a check?

Kidding, I am not that young.

 

[LadyLocust]

One thousand & six hundred Dollars or Sixteen hundred Dollars.

The second is correct. The first would be correct if you omitted the & and simply put a comma after the word “thousand.”

SHB One thousand, six hundred dollars.

 

[Caribou]

"And" in a number designates a decimal point.

 

[lonewolf]

one thousand and six hundred dollars only.

 

[d_marsh]

 

[LadyLocust]

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So that’s @Neb ’s real name eh?

 

[Haertig]

So that’s @Neb ’s real name eh?

Now, now. Just because @Neb is the only one among us who could do that math in his head (or do it in any manner, for that matter) does not mean that we should immediately suspect him as being the author of this check.

 

[Jen]

One thousand & six hundred Dollars or Sixteen hundred Dollars.

I usually do the first option there.

 

[joel]

One thousand & six hundred Dollars or Sixteen hundred Dollars.

One thousand & six hundred Dollars is more common, but i agree with Tootsie.

 

[Neb]

Now, now. Just because @Neb is the only one among us who could do that math in his head (or do it in any manner, for that matter) does not mean that we should immediately suspect him as being the author of this check.

It works out to about 0.002 dollars.

" e to the pi i" is -1
The summation approaches 1

So the last two terms cancel.



I once checked to a hotel and when I was handed my room key I responded;

Cool. Two times the square root of my zip code!

The clerk gave me a funny look.

Ben