- 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
- Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which is correct to use in a sentence, 10 US$ or US$ 10 Perhaps USD should be used instead or even something else?
- 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 '"
- 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)
- 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
- Does a tenfold increase mean multiplying something by 10 or by 11?
Answered at Why is "a 100% increase" the same amount as "a two-fold increase"? in general English, terminology hereabouts can lack clarity In science, ' [linear] scale factor 4 25' is surely required for both clarity and accuracy
- Correct usage of lbs. as in pounds of weight
Assuming it's not casual usage, I'd recommend "All items over five pounds are excluded," instead Most style guided recommend spelling out numbers of ten or less, and in such a case I'd spell out the unit, too
- 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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