- 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
- 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
- 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
- Why is a 100% increase the same amount as a two-fold increase?
24 Yes, the correct usage is that 100% increase is the same as a two-fold increase The reason is that when using percentages we are referring to the difference between the final amount and the initial amount as a fraction (or percent) of the original amount
- word choice - Is it less than $100 or under $100? Is it more than $100 . . .
All of your variants are grammatically correct, and will be easily understood by native English speakers The less than X is idiomatically identical to under X when referring to monetary amounts, as is more than X with over X However, if your audience is international, you might prefer to say items costing less than X or items costing more than X simply to avoid any possibility of confusion
- word choice - Choosing between 100% and cent percent - English . . .
2 Use 100% when you are stating mathematical thought like statistics Use "one hundred percent" when you are stating non-mathematical thought like a story
- reading aloud - How should numbers be spelled on a receipt? - English . . .
One of the most confusing things for me is spelling English numerals What is grammatical way to spell the following numbers in the context of writing the numeral in a receipt? $100 mdash; a hu
- Can I write ~€100 to denote an approximate amount of 100 euros?
I am currently using the expression “~€100” to symbolically denote an approximate amount of one hundred euros However, I’m not sure whether the symbol ~ followed by the symbol € and the amount of
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