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  1. "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 …

  2. "(a/one) hundred percent" — Is "a/one" always optional here?

    May 25, 2025 · To my ear, 'one hundred percent' sounds more emphatic than 'a hundred percent', simply because the former feels more deliberately phrased—conveying precisely 100% as …

  3. 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 …

  4. Is It Ok To Write "100%" In A Formal Text? - English Language

    Jun 17, 2014 · 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 …

  5. 100 USD/US$ Over USD/US$ 100 - English Language Learners …

    100 USD/US$ Over USD/US$ 100 Ask Question Asked 11 years, 5 months ago Modified 6 years, 5 months ago

  6. 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 …

  7. 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 …

  8. What was the first use of the saying, "You miss 100% of the shots …

    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 …

  9. 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 …

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

    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 …