- 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
- a 100 vs 100 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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 above Ngram search would suggest that a one hundred has always been less frequently used in written language and as such should probably be avoided
- Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%?
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)
- 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
- 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 'One hundred' is also used Either form is also used for 1,000, i e 'a thousand', or 'one thousand' etc
- 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 '"
- How do you correctly say large numbers
Back in high school my algebra teacher was extremely picky If we were going to say the number 135, we would say one hundred thirty-five If a person said one hundred and thirty-five my teacher would interpret that to mean 100 35 Was my algebra teacher wrong, or did Jon just waste over 80 hours counting to 100,000 incorrectly
- How to spell out dollars and cents [duplicate]
If you're writing the amount on a check, where the word "dollars" is preprinted at the end of the line, the convention is to write "Forty-two thousand and 00 100", which is then followed by the pre-printed "dollars" If you're writing in most other contexts, the convention is to write "forty-two thousand dollars and fifty-seven cents"
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