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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
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 '"
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
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)
Why is a 100% increase the same amount as a two-fold increase? 24 Yes, the correct usage is that 100% increase is the same as a two-fold increase The reason is that when using percentages we are referring to the difference between the final amount and the initial amount as a fraction (or percent) of the original amount
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
How to spell out dollars and cents [duplicate] Possible Duplicate: How to say the total amount? Which is the correct way to spell out dollars and cents? Forty-Two Thousand Dollars and 00 100 ($42,000 00) or Forty-Two Thousand and 00 100
Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat. I couldn't find any use of the phrase earlier than the 1840 Money Diggers reference, but I did find some background to which the saying might refer Apparently the debate on cat-skinning boiled down to whether or not it was done while the cat was still alive Here's a clip from the disturbing House of Commons' Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Committee on Bill for Prevention of Cruelty to
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