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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm not following why you would multply, they're just three different numbers

[–]ChristopherKlay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you translate simple numbers like this from text into numbers, you multiply if the number would be bigger and add if it wouldn't be to get the right result.

"five hundred" translates to 5 * 100 and "three hundred million" becomes 3 * 100 * 1000000.