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[nitaq.livejournal.com]

How does one pronounce numbers with a lot of numbers behind the decimal point?
For example:
1.23456789123456789
Up to a point one can use 234 thousandths, but it gets really impossible if the number is really long.
In English you'd say: one point two three four five... etc.
In German it would be: eins komma zwei drei vier fünf... etc.
Isn't there anything comparably easy in Russian?

Comments

[shota-kitten.livejournal.com]

If it's a rather short number, you can say
1,3 - одна целая три десятых
1,32 - одна целая тридцать две сотых
1, 322 - одна целая триста двадцать две тысячных
ит.д.
but when the number is really long I say
1,23464535 - один, запятая, два, три, четыре ит.д. or одна целая, запятая, два, три, четыре...

[shota-kitten.livejournal.com]

or even одна целая, два, три, четыре...

[schanner.livejournal.com]

Про число пи мы в школе говорили " три-четырнадцать-пятнадцать-девяносто два..."

[alamar.livejournal.com]

Russian speaker would try to group numbers by two or three to increase speed.
E.g. for your last number
один запятая двести тридцадь четыре, шестьдесят четыре, пятьсот тридцать пять.

[shota-kitten.livejournal.com]

yes, you're right.

Is there some context?

[lion-casserole.livejournal.com]

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If there isn't, then normally we would say (please note, normally Russians are using decimal comma rather than decimal point):

2,87 - два [рубля] восемьдесят семь [копеек], (e.g. a value of price tag),
7,62 - семь [целых] шестьдесят две [сотых миллиметра],
3,14159265358979 - три [целых], четырнадцать, пятнадцать, девяносто два, шестьдесят пять, тридцать пять, ...

[colonelrabin.livejournal.com]

Especially the vodka price before 1971 and the most popular Russian rifle caliber.:)

:)

[lion-casserole.livejournal.com]

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You do know Russian reality in deep :)

Re: :)

[colonelrabin.livejournal.com]

Would be strange if it were not so.

[lady-alisanda.livejournal.com]

Though it doesn't really increase speed. More of helps to remember the sequence or to dictate it to someone accurately.

[hyyudu.livejournal.com]

Один и два три четыре пять шесть...
2.87 - два и восемьдесят семь

[vovanium.livejournal.com]

Never pronounced such long numbers. When I speak about it I say some digits: "...получилось одна целая двести тридцать четыре и т. д." If one need to write down this number, I pronounce it digit by digit: "записывай: один, запятая, два, три, четыре..."

[alamar.livejournal.com]

...which leads to less errors and thus increased speed :)

[nitaq.livejournal.com]

Thank you everybody.
I'll give those answers to my russian teacher, who tried to find out, but people told her that you had to use the method with hundredths and thousandths or not pronounce it at all.
This is a lot easier and more feasible when doing maths.