
"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 …
"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 - 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.
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 …
Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%?
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 …
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 …
What is the term for decade, century, millenium, etc?
May 20, 2020 · A time span? It will depend on the context: is your 'decade' 10 consecutive years, or is it, say, the noughties? Is the 'century' 100 consecutive years, or, say, the 20th century?
reading aloud - How should numbers be spelled on a receipt?
One of the most confusing things for me is spelling English numerals. What is grammatical way to spell the following numbers in the context of writing the numeral in a receipt? $100 — a …
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 …
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 …