Learn English – the right way to ask the number of your spectacles

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Here people ask like this what is the power of your eye or what is number of your spectacles is it right way to ask. What is the way to ask the eyesight. Describe it.

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The normal way to ask is

What is your prescription?

or

What is your eye prescription?

or

What is your prescription for glasses?

The main part of the answer is a figure in dioptres- this is the strength of the lens needed to correct your sight for distance. Long-sighted people have a positive number and short sighted people have a negative number. There are additional figures to adjust your sight whilst reading, and for astigmatism.

Another way of describing your vision is your visual acuity. Not many people know this term, but most people know that 20/20 vision is very good. What it means is that you can read letters from 20 feet away that most people can read from 20 feet away. A visual acuity of 20/200 means that you are practically blind: you can read letters from 20 feet away that most people can read from 200 feet away.

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