Is it proper to state percentages greater than 100%?

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

2025 Nov 04

word choice

All of your variants are grammatically correct, and will be easily understood by native English speakers. The less than X is idiomatically identical to under X when referring to

2024 Jul 12

The meaning of 0% and 100% as opposed to other percentages?

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

2025 Sep 30

"centennial" vs. "centurial"

relating to 100 years : 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

2024 Sep 06

word choice

2 Use 100% when you are stating mathematical thought like statistics. Use "one hundred percent" when you are stating non-mathematical thought like a story.

2024 Feb 20

word request

The title of this question says it all. Are there nouns for longer periods than a millennium ? I mean words designating a specific number of years. Era, age and epoch don''t

2025 Nov 11