Timeline for When does one write numbers with words, when with figures (e.g. "drei" statt "3")?
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 9:25 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @Jan: I do not quite follow. Just that I do not write out anything with an abbreviated unit does not mean that I do write out everything without an abbreviated unit. | |
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| Jun 1, 2015 at 8:53 | comment | added | Jan | Your rules seem inconsistent if you write 5 Stunden (as opposed to fünf Stunden vs. 5 h) … but that’s really the only nitpick I have ;) | |
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| Nov 23, 2013 at 10:20 | comment | added | Toscho |
@Wrzlprmft As elementary charges are fixed to elementary particles, it would indeed be correct to write zwölf Elementarladungen for a set of twelve protons, e.g. a magnesium core, as it is a cardinality. If positive and negative particles are mixed, even the total charge is less than 13 e, this is inappropriate again, as negative numbers aren't cardinalities.
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| Nov 23, 2013 at 10:05 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @Toscho: These are indeed examples, for which I would deviate from my rule of thumb as given here (though I would write out a sufficiently small number before “Elementarladungen” in a rare case where it is unabbreviated). However, I do not think that “special meaning” or “fixed quantity” are good criteria. I am going to add something that should cover these (and some more) cases. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 9:24 | comment | added | Toscho |
@Wrzlprmft By „fixed quantity“ I mean a somehow defined quantity with a special meaning rather than just being the cardinality of a set. Example: In „Seien a und b zwei Elemente …“ the zwei is just the cardinality of the subset {a,b} and has no other meaning. In „Dieses Elektron hat die Quantenzahlen 2, 1, -1, 1/2.“ all numbers have a special meaning: the respective quantum number.
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| Nov 22, 2013 at 9:13 | comment | added | Toscho |
@Wrzlprmft Electric charges are multiples of the elementary charge e, so if you use e as a unit, the electrical charge is always preceeded by an integer. Furthermore, quantum numbers are integers, half integers or even natural numbers.
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 20:40 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @Toscho: The only scientific units that I am aware of and that are not preceeded by real numbers are units of information (such as bit), where I would stand by my private rule of thumb. What do you mean by “fixed quantity”? | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 20:06 | comment | added | Toscho | The part about scientific texts is partially wrong. A quantity with units (zu Deutsch „Größe“) is always written with Numerals and the unit symbol. Furthermore, the criterion shouldn't be, if it's a natural number but if it is used to describe a fixed quantity (even without units). | |
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| May 13, 2013 at 11:26 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | Ich verstehe, aber sehe das anders. Ich sehe keinen Grund, dass 1 strikt durch eins zu ersetzen wäre, und habe deswegen kein Problem damit, 1 für eine o. Ä. zu schreiben – genausowenig wie ich ein Problem damit habe 101 für hundenderteinen o. Ä. zu schreiben (wobei hier natürlich auch immer hunderteins stehen könnte). | |
| May 13, 2013 at 9:15 | comment | added | Em1 | In einer Masterarbeit würde ich z.b. schreiben: "Von den 77 Schnittstellen musste ich nur eines implementieren." "Siebenundsiebzig" ist zu unleserlich, "1" ist nicht "richtig genug", also breche ich deinen Styleguide, es nicht zu mischen. Auch wenn ich sonst dem Styleguide zustimme und ihn genauso handhabe. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 9:14 | comment | added | Em1 | Eben dass du gar nicht darauf eingehst, erwähne ich das. In einer flüchtigen Email ist's vielleicht noch OK, aber "1" steht eigentlich für "eins" und nicht für "eine" oder "einen", somit ist es - wenn man pedantisch vorgeht - falsch. Ich würde es wahrscheinlich nie als falsch ankreiden, aber zumindest sollte man das ins Bewusstsein rufen, so dass man dann für sich selbst entscheidet, wie man damit umgeht. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 8:02 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @Em1: Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich verstanden haben, worauf Du hinaus willst. Dass die Zahl eins stärker dekliniert wird als die anderen, beeinflusst meine Antwort doch nicht. Niemand hat etwas davon gesagt, dass 1 immer „eins“ auszusprechen ist. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 7:10 | comment | added | Em1 | There's missing one important thing in your answer: While "2" is always "zwei", and "3" ist always "drei" etc., the number "1" is not always "eins" but also "ein", "einen", ... "Sie gingen 1 km" - "Er hält sich 3 Hunde, 2 Katzen und 1 Wellensittich". Technically speaking this is wrong. In respect to stylistic it's disputable. For informal texts it may be OK but you should at least aware of that. Exceptions: 1 Jahr; 1.1.1111; 1€; 1111% | |
| May 13, 2013 at 1:10 | comment | added | chirlu | The reasoning behind the switch at 12/13 is that numbers up to 12 have their own “names” in German, whereas higher numbers are composed: “zwölf”, but “drei-zehn”. | |
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| May 12, 2013 at 19:36 | comment | added | Takkat | I like the "x+1" rule a lot, never heard of it but it does make sense. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 19:33 | history | answered | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |