Halves

PREFIXES MEANING HALF                               

                        SEMI-  (Latin - "half")  semicircle, semi-truck, semitrailer, semifinal, semiannual, semiautomatic, semicolon 

                        DEMI-  (French- "half")  demigod, demigoddess,  demivolt 

                        HEMI-  (Greek- "half")   hemicycle, hemisphere, hemispherical, hemihydrated

Half a Thousandth  ......half-mill           .0005    .05% 

Half a Hundredth.........half-cent          .005      .5%   

Half a Tenth                  half-tenth         .05         5%    five cents,  five percent,  nickel


WHOLES . DECIMAL POINT . FRACTIONS

One Half................   half  or  fifty percent    .50   50%   50-cents ..50/100  OR  1/2  or 2/4 or two quartersor   .......

. DECIMAL POINT

5 ones are half of ten [10]

5 tens are half of one hundred [100]

5 hundreds are half of one thousand [1,000]

5 thousands are half of ten thousand [10,000] 

5 ten thousands are half of a hundred thousand  [100,000] 

5 hundred thousand is half of one million  [1,000,000]