- What was the first use of the saying, You miss 100% of the shots you . . .
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take 1991 Burton W Kanter, "AARP—Asset Accumulation, Retention and Protection," Taxes 69: 717: "Wayne Gretzky, relating the comment of one of his early coaches who, frustrated by his lack of scoring in an important game told him, 'You miss 100% of the shots you never take '"
- Correct usage of USD - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Computers do the work pre-publishing instead of readers doing the work post-publishing So we are free to just write for the reader’s understanding alone: one billion dollars 30 trillion dollars 1 7 quintillion dollars 42 pounds sterling 67 cents 100 clams 50 quid a stack of euros thick enough to choke a cow
- 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
- meaning - How to use tens of and hundreds of? - English Language . . .
If I'm not mistaken, tens of means 10 to 99 and hundreds of means 100 to 999 Is this correct? I found in some dictionaries that tens of is actually not correct I also found that hundreds of coul
- How to write numbers and percentage? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In general, it is good practice that the symbol that a number is associated with agrees with the way the number is written (in numeric or text form) For example, $3 instead of 3 dollars Note that this doesn't apply when the numbers are large, so it is perfectly fine to write 89 5 percent, as eighty-nine-and-a-half percent is very clunky This source puts it simply: When writing percentages
- Is there a word for 25 years like bicentennial for 200 years? Is it . . .
1 If semicentennial (semi-, precisely half, + centennial, a period of 100 years) is 50 years, then quarticentennial (quart-, a combining form meaning "a fourth," + centennial) is properly the -ennial word meaning 25 years (and arguably more correct than quadrancentennial, since there is no combining form of quadrant)
- 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
- word request - decade, century, millennium, what is next? - English . . .
The title of this question says it all Are there nouns for longer periods than a millennium ? I mean words designating a specific number of years Era, age and epoch don't count as they just in
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