- Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%? [closed]
People often say that percentages greater than 100 make no sense because you can't have more than all of something This is simply silly and mathematically ignorant A percentage is just a ratio between two numbers There are many situations where it is perfectly reasonable for the numerator of a fraction to be greater than the denominator
- Hypernym for numbers like 10, 100, 1,000, and so on
What is an umbrella term for numbers like 10, 100, 1000, 100000 etc?
- a 100 vs 100 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The flow rate increases 100-fold (one hundred-fold) Would be a more idiomatic way of saying this, however, the questioner asks specifically about the original phrasing The above Ngram search would suggest that a one hundred has always been less frequently used in written language and as such should probably be avoided Your other suggestion of by one hundred times is definitely better than a
- centennial vs. centurial - describing periods of 100 years
relating to 100 years : marking or beginning a century, with the example "the centurial years 1600 and 1700" But there is a word that is widely used to indicate the range of years or centuries covered by an article or book: history
- The meaning of 0% and 100% as opposed to other percentages?
If soap A kills 100% and soap B kills 99 99% of bacteria, the remaining amount of bacteria after applying A (0%) is infinitely smaller than the remaining amount of bacteria after applying B (0 01%) Therefore A is much, much better You can see from these examples that 0 01% gap behaves differently across the percentage scale
- When did a buck start being used to mean any unit of 100? (E. g. a . . .
I wouldn't be at all surprised if using buck to mean "one hundred" in a general sense that is applicable to various units of measure (such as "100 miles per hour" in your example) goes back to the 1970s, but documenting first occurrences of U S slang from about 1930 onward is extremely difficult
- How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words?
37 Wikipedia lists large scale numbers here As only the 10 x with x being a multiple of 3 get their own names, you read 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 as 100 * 10 18, so this is 100 quintillion in American and British English and 100 trillion in most (non-English speaking) other places
- Is It Ok To Write 100% In A Formal Text? - English Language Usage . . .
The statistical-sounding expression is no problem, but if you want to be formal in register, as your headline indicates, you should probably spell it out as “one hundred percent”—and also spell out “it is” (which latter you have here contracted)
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