- 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?
- 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
- 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 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
- Should there be a space before a percent sign?
I will add that German standards, too, use a space (see DIN 5008, Duden, etc ), but it appears that barely any German is aware of that The style guidelines of the German Wikipedia agree that there should be a space, but even in their article on the percent sign itself that rule is occasionally ignored: for every instance with a space, there's another one without So much for standards
- 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
- How to say the total amount? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm not sure if the saying of the total amount USD 23,428 32 is correct below (esp the 'cent' part after the dot): Say U S dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight and thirty
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