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Therefore a is much, much better. · in everyday language, people call 1/100 1 percent. This relates to a common usage in a number of contexts, for example, to do a ton is to achieve a speed of 100 miles per hour and in darts or cricket a ton is a score of 100. This is familiar enough not to seem an odd usage, even though ton is most commonly met with as a largish unit of weight. · 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. Note that this doesnt apply when the numbers are large, so it is perfectly fine to write 89. 5 percent, as eighty-nine-and-a-half percent is very clunky. A percentage is just a ratio between two numbers. Wed say two hundred and fifty. You can see from these examples that 0. 01% gap behaves differently across the percentage scale. Interesting, as this is certainly not the case with spoken australian (and i wouldve thought british) english. How do i say 1⁄1000? Apparently the debate on cat-skinning boiled down to whether or not it was done while the cat was still alive. Perhaps usd should be used instead or even something else? · 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%). · i couldnt find any use of the phrase earlier than the 1840 money diggers reference, but i did find some background to which the saying might refer. For example, $3 instead of 3 dollars. · does a percentage require a singular or plural verb, for example, do we say ten percent go or goes? So youd say two hundred fifty? Numbers above 100 and not divisible by 10 include and? Your other suggestion of by one … This source puts it simply: · which is correct to use in a sentence, 10 us$ or us$ 10. · 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). O point one percent 1 thousandth or something else? · a ton is £100 (half a ton being therefore £50). This is simply silly and mathematically ignorant. Heres a clip from the disturbing house of commons minutes of evidence taken before committee on bill for … People often say that percentages greater than 100 make no sense because you cant have more than all of something. There are many situations where it is perfectly reasonable for the numerator of a fraction to be greater than the denominator.
