John Cowan wrote:

> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
>
> > Moreover, different dialects use different word orders for
> saying high
> > numbers. E.g., "123" can be "hundred and twenty and three",
> "hundred and
> > three and twenty", or "three and twenty and hundred". I
> suspect that this
> > too can influence the way numbers are written.
>
> Interesting! What is the convention of modern standard
> Arabic? For example, if the number is written out in
> words, how is it written out?

Well, our teacher is teaching us to say hundred-three-twenty for 123, but I
think Quranic Arab had three-twenty-hundred. But I'd be better double
checking my grammar book...

Ciao.
Marco