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- american english - What is the meaning of Five Thousand and No 100 . . .
The " 100" refers to cents, since there are 100 cents in a dollar Sometimes people write and no cents after the word "dollars", or the word Exactly before the (verbal) number of dollars
- 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 between two numbers There are many situations where it is perfectly reasonable for the numerator of a fraction to be greater than the denominator
- Difference between hundred, a hundred, and one hundred?
In the UK 'a hundred, a hundred and one, a hundred and two' etc is a common style when speaking about 100, 101, 102 etc This form is also used when writing what has been spoken
- 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 '"
- Between A and B or from A to B - English Language Usage Stack . . .
For that reason, I would interpret both Pick a number between 1 and 100 and Rate this hotel from 1 to 10 to be inclusive, absent any clarifying context
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In maths, linear scale factors are used to avoid (1) the confusion where in everyday language 'ten times bigger' is used to mean 'x10' whereas 'one time ( s) bigger' (paraphrasing 100% bigger) means 'x2' (so I don't like your 'A is 13 to 17 times the size of B: this can be written as A is 13-17 times higher larger than B') (2) confusion with area, volume scale factors Thus 'a scale factor of
- What do you call one hundredth of a second?
milli = one thousandth (1 1000) centi = one hundredth (1 100) deci = one tenth (1 10) deka = ten times (10) hecto = one hundred times (100) kilo = one thousand times (1000) and so on When these prefixes are attached with any unit, they modify the magnitude of that unit by their respective values as shown above
- How to write dollar amounts in a narrative
What's the best way to write dollar amounts in a narrative (such as a novel), particularly if the amounts are large and or fractional? I would use this: "The national debt just hit 14 6 trillion
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