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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
- 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
- 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
- Is It Ok To Write 100% In A Formal Text? - English Language Usage . . .
The type of writing you are doing also plays into your decision For example, in legally binding documents, like contracts or exhibits to contracts, the spelled out number is the legally binding number So if a text said that, "you are 99% (one-hundred percent) responsible", the 100% number would be legally binding, not 99%
- 100 USD US$ Over USD US$ 100 - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
100 USD US$ Over USD US$ 100 Ask Question Asked 11 years, 5 months ago Modified 6 years, 5 months 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
- grammatical number - Are percentages singular or plural? - English . . .
20% of the students are is present The remaining 20% of the protein form forms enzymes Singular verb or plural — which one is correct?
- What does the expression just keeping it a buck mean and where does . . .
A 'buck' is slang for a dollar, which has 100 cents, and the maximum of something that you can have is 100 per cent To 'keep it a buck' is to keep 'it' (the current discussion or utterance) 100% authentic, truthful, honest, etc
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