If you want to convey that you have one friend in total, you use the phrase “my only friend”. And not a metaphor. Is just saying “my friend” ambiguous?

Can more

• than one friend be added? In short: “A friend of mine”: total number of friends at least one.
• My one friend: total number of friends is greater than one, and
• the total number of friends of my friend equal to 1.
• How many friends are there on “My friend” list?

At least that’s how I perceive it. I prefer interpretations that infer the least.

If you want to convey that you have one friend in total, you use the phrase “my only friend”. And not a metaphor. Is just saying “my friend” ambiguous?

Can more

• than one friend be added? In short: “A friend of mine”: total number of friends at least one.
• My one friend: total number of friends is greater than one, and
• the total number of friends of my friend equal to 1.
• How many friends are there on “My friend” list?

At least that’s how I perceive it. I prefer interpretations that infer the least.

If you want to convey that you have one friend in total, you use the phrase “my only friend”. And not a metaphor. Is just saying “my friend” ambiguous?

Can more

• than one friend be added? In short: “A friend of mine”: total number of friends at least one.
• My one friend: total number of friends is greater than one, and
• the total number of friends of my friend equal to 1.
• How many friends are there on “My friend” list?

At least that’s how I perceive it. I prefer interpretations that infer the least.

Is it incorrect to use the words “Billion”, “trillion”, “quadrillion” or “Forbs”? for “twenties million”, “million

• million” etc. and use either: “thousands” or “millions” etc. ,
• unit prefixes, if the number has associated units, or
• scientific notation.

(Incidentally, a related recommendation is to use “.” as a decimal point and spaces as digit-group separators, due to the lack of a common standard use of “.” and “,” among European countries. So fifty million plus one half is 50 000 000. What

is 5″(.)?

Is it incorrect to use the words “Billion”, “trillion”, “quadrillion” or “Forbs”? for “twenties million”, “million

• million” etc. and use either: “thousands” or “millions” etc. ,
• unit prefixes, if the number has associated units, or
• scientific notation.

(Incidentally, a related recommendation is to use “.” as a decimal point and spaces as digit-group separators, due to the lack of a common standard use of “.” and “,” among European countries. So fifty million plus one half is 50 000 000. What

is 5″(.)?