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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a round number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a whole number that is typically easy to work with, often ending in zeroes, such as 10, 100, or 1000.
Example: "The budget for the project was set at a round number of $10,000 to simplify calculations."
Alternatives: "a whole number" or "an even number".
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Just a round number.
So what makes a number good? "A round number and a low number," he said.
There's money to be saved by dipping below a round number.
The 2C number began life in 1995 as a round number that was useful in political negotiations.
No other set of variables produces such a round number in Prussian currency or such a date.
So Mr. Obeid became determined to break the record: he picked a round number, 1,000, and established rules.
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It feels like a rounder number than nine, given the attendant noise — but then nine is a mysterious number.
One study, by Robert M. Schindler, a professor of marketing at the Rutgers School of Business, found that consumers "perceive a 9-ending price as a round-number price with a small amount given back".
The 1,000 level is not only important from a round-number perspective, but it would represent a 50% advance from the index's March low of 666.79.
The stock is also hovering in the 40 area, a round-number level that could serve as a region of support.
This difference is partially related to the rounding of coordinates by 10 and beginning the grid articulation from a round-number coordinates (Viraph begins the articulation relative to the top-left point of the plan).
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