On 28 maio, 11:09, Eleanor McHugh <elea... / games-with-brains.com>
wrote:
> On 28 May 2009, at 15:01, deka wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am a Brazilian girl and I have a doubt abour numbers in English.
> > I have a book in English where there is a tabel on cumulative civilian
> > death toll in wars. They put "100s africans, 1000s civil war..." and I
> > would like to know the meaning of the little "s" after the numbers.
> > Tanks very much.
>
> 100s reads as 'hundreds'
> 1000s reads as 'thousands'
>
> Ellie
>
> Eleanor McHugh
> Games With Brainshttp://slides.games-with-brains.net
> ----
> raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason

Ellie,
Thank you very much!