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- 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
- 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 '"
- 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?
- 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)
- differences - X times as many as or X times more than - English . . .
As a quick point, I've seen similar confusion for phrases like "a 300% increase" While people agree a "50% increase" means 1 5x the original, percentages over 100 sometimes vary such that "a 300% increase" could mean 3x or 4x the original value I suspect it's due to trying to make 3x = 300% rather than 4x = 300% despite the fact that the word increase would signal "in addition to the
- 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
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