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- 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 '"
- 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 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
- Whats the antonym of fifty-thousand foot view?
I'm writing about a concept that I would like to explain at three levels: high-level, medium, and very granular "Fifty-thousand foot view" is a common business idiom to describe the highest, most
- Word for 100% majority? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is there a word for majority wherein someone or something gets all the votes cast?
- How did a ton come to mean one hundred of something?
A ton is £100 (half a ton being therefore £50) This relates to a common usage in a number of contexts, for example, to do a ton is to achieve a speed of 100 miles per hour and in darts or cricket a ton is a score of 100 This is familiar enough not to seem an odd usage, even though ton is most commonly met with as a largish unit of weight
- Does a percentage quantity take singular or plural verb agreement . . .
Does a percentage require a singular or plural verb, for example, do we say ten percent "go" or "goes"?
- 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
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