Apr 26, 2023relating to 100 years : People often say that percentages greater than 100 make no sense because you can't have more than all of something. Aug 24, 2016the 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.
Aug 29, 2015if 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. 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. May 25, 2025to 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.
Feb 15, 2018hypernym for numbers like 10, 100, 1,000, and so on ask question asked 7 years, 11 months ago modified 7 years, 11 months ago Nov 10, 2020numbers with more than 100 zeros ask question asked 5 years, 3 months ago modified 5 years, 3 months ago Sep 18, 2018and the usage always seems to involve a number between 100 and 200: