"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 above Ngram …
"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 years or …
What does the expression "just keeping it a buck" mean and where …
Dec 23, 2023 · A 'buck' is slang for a dollar, which has 100 cents, and the maximum of something that you can have is 100 per cent. To 'keep it a buck' is to keep 'it' (the current discussion or utterance) …
How do you correctly say large numbers
Aug 15, 2011 · I was taught (and it seems logical to me) that 100.35 is read " one-hundred point three five," 135 is read "one-hundred thirty-five" and to say "one-hundred and thirty-five" should be left for …
word choice - Choosing between "100%" and "cent percent" - English ...
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.
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 …
How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words?
Jun 23, 2015 · 37 Wikipedia lists large scale numbers here. As only the 10 x with x being a multiple of 3 get their own names, you read 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 as 100 * 10 18, so this is 100 quintillion …
The meaning of 0% and 100% as opposed to other percentages?
Aug 29, 2015 · If soap A kills 100% and soap B kills 99.99% of bacteria, the remaining amount of bacteria after applying A (0%) is infinitely smaller than the remaining amount of bacteria after …
Money abbreviations - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I can't find in Google any list of the money abbreviations used by English people. I need to know how to continue this list: 1,000 = K 1,000,000 = M (or KK for odd speaking) What is the next, mayb...
Correct usage of "persons" (vs. "people")
I had a little fight about persons vs. people. Could you advise if both of the following are correct, if possible with reference to a dictionary? A table for two people please. A table for ...