May 21, 2011 · Which is correct to use in a sentence, 10 US$ or US$ 10. Perhaps USD should be used instead or even something else?

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.

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.'" ...

Aug 31, 2017 · Answered at Why is "a 100% increase" the same amount as "a two-fold increase"?. in general English, terminology hereabouts can lack clarity. In science, ' [linear] scale factor 4.25' is surely required for both clarity and accuracy.

May 20, 2019 · In general, it is good practice that the symbol that a number is associated with agrees with the way the number is written (in numeric or text form). For example, $3 instead of 3 dollars. Note that this doesn't apply when the numbers are large, so it is perfectly fine to write 89.5 percent, as eighty-nine-and-a-half percent is very clunky. This source puts it …

May 22, 2020 · In everyday language, people call "1/100" 1 percent. How do I say "1⁄1000"? O point one percent 1 thousandth or something else?

Nov 30, 2012 · Computers do the work pre-publishing instead of readers doing the work post-publishing. So we are free to just write for the reader’s understanding alone: one billion dollars 30 trillion dollars 1.7 quintillion dollars 42 pounds sterling 67 cents 100 clams 50 quid a stack of euros thick enough to choke a cow

Feb 29, 2012 · 1 If semicentennial (semi-, precisely half, + centennial, a period of 100 years) is 50 years, then quarticentennial (quart-, a combining form meaning "a fourth," + centennial) is properly the -ennial word meaning 25 years (and arguably more correct than quadrancentennial, since there is no combining form of quadrant).

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 in American and British English and …

Apr 23, 2012 · I'm not sure if the saying of the total amount USD 23,428.32 is correct below (esp. the 'cent' part after the dot): Say U.S. dollars twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight and thirty...