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Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%? 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)
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 '"
The meaning of 0% and 100% as opposed to other percentages? So you may refund all of a loan (with interests) without paying 100% of it: the rounding rule sometimes apply also with 100% (or 0%) When rounding the amount of killed bacteria you have to remember that you are talking about numbers that exceed hundreds of billions so 1% is still a large number of bacteria that will survive and multiply
How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words? 100 trillion in most (non-English speaking) other places (Practical approach: The different naming patterns for large numbers obviously can lead to misunderstandings internationally, expressing large numbers in the unambiguous format of X ×10 y may be preferrable in these cases
Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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
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
Is there a word for 25 years like bicentennial for 200 years? Is it . . . However, a centennial is an event, celebrated at 100 years Words with the “-cennial” root, like decennial, refer to a repeating cycle, e g every 10 years However, in the spirit of brevity, for a word describing the cycle of every 25 years, what about “quarcennial”? “Quarti-“ just stumbles when spoken
Using hundreds to express thousands: why, where, when? Thus, in contrast to the SI system used by scientists internationally in which only base units separated by three powers of ten are employed (microlitre — millilitre — litre), one finds cl used for volume (75 cl on bottles of wine, rather than 750 ml), hectares (100 ares — 10,000 square metres) for large areas, and hectograms (etti in
Numbers with more than 100 zeros - English Language Learners Stack Exchange If 1 followed by 100 zeros is a googol, it follows that: 1 followed by 101 zeros is ten googol 1 followed by 102 zeros is a hundred googol 1 followed by 103 zeros is a thousand googol 1 followed by 104 zeros is ten thousand googol 105 - a hundred thousand googol 106 - a million googol 107 - ten million googol 108 - a hundred million googol