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 …

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 …

2012年11月30日 · 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 …

2016年1月17日 · 20% of the students are/is present. The remaining 20% of the protein form/forms enzymes. Singular verb or plural — which one is correct?

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 …

2019年5月20日 · 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 …

2015年4月11日 · Is there a word for majority wherein someone or something gets all the votes cast?

2011年6月30日 · I couldn't 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. Apparently the …

2011年3月15日 · I'm writing about a concept that I would like to explain at three levels: high-level, medium, and very granular. "Fifty-thousand foot view" is a common business idiom to describe …

2015年9月12日 · Does a percentage require a singular or plural verb, for example, do we say ten percent "go" or "goes"?