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I am currently working through みんなの日本語 (and still very new), in 第二課の会話 one
character says "...408のサントスです。”, but in the audio the voice actor says what
sounds like ”よんまるはちのサントスです".

I would say 408 as "よんひゃくはち" , what is this "まる", is it just another way to
represent 100?
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How would you refer to an apartment number?
In this case, Santos isn't saying he's from (apartment) "four hundred and
eight", but (apartment) "four - oh - eight".

まる (kanji 丸) in this case refers to the symbol ○, which can sometimes stand in
the place of zero, just as 'oh' stands in place of 'zero' in English.
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I'm still new to Japanese myself, but I think they are saying:

> 四{よん}丸{まる}八{はち}

Here, 「丸」is the word for "circle", and is taking the place of the zero in the
number. This is basically equivalent to how somebody in English might read the
number "four oh eight" instead of "four zero eight".
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