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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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] …

Jul 27, 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 …

Jun 6, 2014 · What are the age group names for each increment of a decade,starting from 0 and up? i.e. Octogenarian or teenager ?? Thanks

Feb 29, 2012 · However, a centennial is an event, celebrated at 100 years. Words with the “-cennial” root, like decennial, refer to a repeating cycle, e.g. every 10 years. However, in the …

May 4, 2013 · Assuming it's not casual usage, I'd recommend "All items over five pounds are excluded," instead. Most style guided recommend spelling out numbers of ten or less, and in …