- 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)
- Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- etymology - What was the first use of the saying, You miss 100% of the . . .
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 '"
- 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
- How do I say 1 1000? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
"1 100" is not one percent It's, one over one hundred "1⁄1000" is, one over one thousand Your question is, how do you say " 001" and your second offering is correct : one thousandth You can also say, point zero zero one "0 1%" you can omit the zero and just say, point one percent
- 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
- 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
- Correct usage of USD - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
100 clams 50 quid a stack of euros thick enough to choke a cow Share Improve this answer Follow
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