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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
- 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 - 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
- reading aloud - How should numbers be spelled on a receipt? - English . . .
One of the most confusing things for me is spelling English numerals What is grammatical way to spell the following numbers in the context of writing the numeral in a receipt? $100 mdash; a hu
- Numbers with more than 100 zeros - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
In a scientific or mathematical context they might occur, in which case you should use standard index form 1×10¹⁰⁰ for one followed by 100 zeros There is the joke word "googol" for this
- Can I write ~€100 to denote an approximate amount of 100 euros?
I am currently using the expression “~€100” to symbolically denote an approximate amount of one hundred euros However, I’m not sure whether the symbol ~ followed by the symbol € and the amount of
- Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%?
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
- The meaning of 0% and 100% as opposed to other percentages?
If soap A kills 100% and soap B kills 99 99% of bacteria, the remaining amount of bacteria after applying A (0%) is infinitely smaller than the remaining amount of bacteria after applying B (0 01%) Therefore A is much, much better You can see from these examples that 0 01% gap behaves differently across the percentage scale
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