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Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%? [closed] This looks like a real question to me Unfortunately, because a moderator has closed it, I can't cite style guide discussions that distinguish between asserting that something has increased by more than 100% (valid) and asserting that something has decreased by more than 100% (invalid, unless negative numbers make sense in the context of the topic under discussion)
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
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 There is a general expectation that, if history is of a restricted period of time, the time will be specified in
writing style - How to write numbers and percentage? - English Language . . . [Relevant examples;] 1%[;] 45%[;] 100% In discussions involving infrequent use of numbers you may spell out a percentage or an amount of money if you can do so in three words or fewer (five dollars, forty-five percent, two thousand dollars, sixty-eight cents) Do no combine spelled forms of numbers with symbols
word choice - Choosing between 100% and cent percent - English . . . I would use 100% when it was an actual measurement, and one hundred percent when it's an expression After counting, I saw that 100% of the visitors wore hats At the time, I was one hundred percent sure of my observation Later I found out that most were not actually hats, but pets
$x USD vs. x USD: does the $ serve any purpose? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
word request - decade, century, millennium, what is next? - English . . . There is presently nothing that comes next Some terms referenced do have year values assigned to them (Epoch at 1,000,000 years and Aeon at 1,000,000,000 years) but common usage relates to geological time periods which are not consistent in length
grammatical number - Plural singular verb agreement with units . . . Use singular verbs with units This usage is so because the measurement results in a quantity of a substance, e g , 2 litres (better written as 2 L) is a quantity of water with the water still being a non-count noun
How did a ton come to mean one hundred of something? My question is essentially how a word with this origin came to have a colloquial meaning referring to one hundred of something, such as in OED definitions referring to 100 points in cricket or darts, or 100 pounds in money The variants of this meaning are first attested from 1936 - 1962, where the 1962 attestation is the first under the