"a 100" vs "100" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 24, 2016 · 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 …
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 …
"centennial" vs. "centurial" - describing periods of 100 years
Apr 26, 2023 · 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 …
word choice - Is it less than $100 or under $100? Is it more than …
Aug 18, 2011 · 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 …
word choice - Choosing between "100%" and "cent percent"
2 Use 100% when you are stating mathematical thought like statistics. Use "one hundred percent" when you are stating non-mathematical thought like a story.
Difference between "hundred", "a hundred", and "one hundred"?
The first example is incorrect. The second and third examples are both correct. Which one you use is mostly a matter of preference, although a hundred appears more frequently than one …
Numbers with more than 100 zeros - English Language Learners …
Nov 10, 2020 · In a scientific or mathematical context they might occur, in which case you should use standard index form 1×10¹⁰⁰ for one followed by 100 zeros. There is the joke word …
Can I write ~€100 to denote an approximate amount of 100 euros?
Apr 19, 2023 · I am currently using the expression “~€100” to symbolically denote an approximate amount of one hundred euros. However, I’m not sure whether the symbol ~ followed by the …
100 people's death or deaths? - English Language Learners Stack …
Aug 9, 2022 · (2) the deaths of individuals or types of death 100 people's deaths in a flood were mourned by their relatives Police recorded 50 people's deaths from stabbing and 65 from car …
How do you correctly say large numbers
Aug 15, 2011 · It leaves no room for ambiguity or mistake. Bottom line. If a student is given a mixed number or mixed fraction (same thing, slightly different name) such as 57 20/100 (fifty …