(Blog) “Two hundred and ninety-six” or “twelve hundred thousand” are both wrong. In the first example, the “and” indicates a decimal point. It may or may not be to some other text. What do you think the numbers for 200.96 would mean if you were converting their value properly into digits? In the second example, the “and” serves as a plus symbol. Converted properly into digits it would be: 2,000 + 1000. What is in a properly written or written whole number? Any space between a comma should be in the position of ‘e’ when writing it out as a digit. One hundred eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven would be 111,111,111.