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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.

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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

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How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words?

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

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"a 100" vs "100"

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

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word choice

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

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Can I write ~€100 to denote an approximate amount of 100 euros?

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

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"centennial" vs. "centurial"

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

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Is It Ok To Write "100%" In A Formal Text?

The statistical-sounding expression is no problem, but if you want to be formal in register, as your headline indicates, you should probably spell it out as "one hundred

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word request

The title of this question says it all. Are there nouns for longer periods than a millennium ? I mean words designating a specific number of years. Era, age and epoch don''t

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The meaning of 0% and 100% as opposed to other percentages?

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

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