Thousands with a silent tens place
79,704 splits into 79 | 704. In the final group, the tens place is zero, so “four” follows “seven hundred” directly.
Seventy-nine thousand seven hundred four
Pattern: Thousands with a silent tens place
79,704 splits into 79 | 704. In the final group, the tens place is zero, so “four” follows “seven hundred” directly.
| Digit | Position | Value | Value in words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | ten-thousands | 70,000 | seventy thousand |
| 9 | thousands | 9,000 | nine thousand |
| 7 | hundreds | 700 | seven hundred |
| 0 | tens | 0 | not spoken |
| 4 | ones | 4 | four |
| Group | Digits | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| thousands | 79 | seventy-nine thousand |
| final group | 704 | seven hundred four |
79,704 splits into 79 | 704. In the final group, the tens place is zero, so “four” follows “seven hundred” directly.
The comma boundary separates 79 from 704: “seventy-nine thousand” is read before “seven hundred four”.
The tens position contains zero. It preserves place value in the numeral but adds no spoken word.
The spelling contains one hyphen. Each hyphen joins a tens word to a non-zero ones word inside the same two-digit group.
The American English style used here normally omits “and” between “hundred” and the following tens or ones.