- Is substract (versus subtract) a proper word?
"Subtract" is the word Though the obsolete word "substract" did exist, any occurrence you see these days is most likely just a common mistake, formed by analogy either with "abstract" or with other languages whose corresponding words do have two ‘s’s
- Does less than really mean subtracted from, or is it bad English?
The language used (minus, subtract, take, take away, less less than add, plus, and more than) can correspond either to the general model or to the actual situation being modelled
- subtract or substract - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Subtract is considered the only correct verb, while substract is considered wrong or at least "very" obsolete However, here is a guy, whose mother tongue is obviously English, and who uses substra
- What part of speech are plus, times, and minus
@zeel, By definition, an equation is saying that the left-hand side is equal to the right-hand side It is stating a relationship between the two sides But at the same time, the plus, minus, times, and divides are called "operators " An operation is happening on those numbers or variables, implying an action
- grammaticality - Use of the word off to indicate a quantity - English . . .
Using "off" to indicate quantity is quite common in Engineering jargon It is quite usual to find such sentences in engineering books, and invoices Though it is incorrect yet used extensively It is better to change the sentence as to not use it Just one correction in adherence to correct use of numbers in sentences The correct one is: The system has one service and two host connections
- What does the idiomatic phrase err on the side of mean?
2 I've looked through several online dictionaries to ferret out the meaning of "err on the side of" ("err on the side of", what I mean is I'm more concerned with the underlying definition for the stock phrase and all its other derivatives)
- Is half of an amount stated as 50% less or 100% less? [closed]
Similarly, when we say 50% less, we mean to subtract 50% of the original value x% more than y = y + y* (x 100) So 50% more than 10 is 10 + 5 = 15, and 250% more than 10 is 10 + 25 = 35 Note that the difference between the 250% more value and the 50% more value is 35 - 15 = 20, which is 200% of the original value
- word choice - Less vs. Fewer when referring to a percentage of a . . .
Come to think of it, percentage = measurement ÷ measurement, and units of measure are countable by definition Thus, 10 7% of anything is perfectly countable, and according to that mythical "rule", it should always be "fewer", and never "less"
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