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 …

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 above Ngram …

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 …

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 opposed …

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 …

Apr 11, 2015 · Is there a word for majority wherein someone or something gets all the votes cast?

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 percent”—and also spell …

Feb 15, 2018 · Hypernym for numbers like 10, 100, 1,000, and so on Ask Question Asked 7 years, 11 months ago Modified 7 years, 11 months ago

Jul 19, 2021 · ‘100% correct’ is grammatically correct in this context, though the organization of the sentence is a bit atypical for many more formal dialects of English and may be difficult for some …

Sep 18, 2018 · And the usage always seems to involve a number between 100 and 200: "a buck fifty" and so forth (the term seems to be wedded to the indefinite article: "a buck something ").