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- 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
- 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 '"
- 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
- 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
- Numbers with more than 100 zeros - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Numbers with more than 100 zeros Ask Question Asked 5 years ago Modified 5 years ago
- 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
- How do you correctly say large numbers
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