Your other suggestion of by one hundred times is definitely better than a. Marking or beginning a century, with the example the centurial years 1600 and 1700 But there is a word that is widely used to indicate the range of years or centuries covered by an article or book 2 use 100% when you are stating mathematical thought like statistics Is it less than $100 or under $100 Is it more than $100 or is it over $100
Ask question asked 14 years, 3 months ago modified 14 years, 3 months ago 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. The first example is incorrect
Which one you use is mostly a matter of preference, although a hundred appears more frequently than one hundred There is also another form, an hundred, which was common in the past, but has mostly fallen out of use A hundred, an hundred, one hundred: It will depend on the context Is your 'decade' 10 consecutive years, or is it, say, the noughties Is the 'century' 100 consecutive years, or, say, the 20th century?
One of the most confusing things for me is spelling english numerals What is grammatical way to spell the following numbers in the context of writing the numeral in a receipt In a scientific or mathematical context they might occur, in which case you should use standard index form 1×10¹⁰⁰ for one followed by 100 zeros There is the joke word googol for this. 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 applying b (0.01%) Therefore a is much, much better
