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You are right, it should be "восьмисот". I did not even notice the difference between the original post (with "восьмисот") and what Marcus mentioned ("восьмиста")! Shame on me. And thank you for...

Maybe you are lucky and you have mostly communicated with well-educated people :)

I can hardly imagine, let's say, a workshop man, saying "от восьмиста семидясети одной тысячи рублей" with proper...

I want to add that declension of compound numerals is complicated in Russian, and many native speakers do not bother to decline them properly. Some less-educated Russians are even unable to.

So,...