Noozhawk: Mary Hunt: 10 Ways to Get Rid of Ants Using Ordinary Stuff in Your Pantry
Mary Hunt: 10 Ways to Get Rid of Ants Using Ordinary Stuff in Your Pantry
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. Your other suggestion of by one hundred times is definitely better than a ...
Because killing 99.99% of germs is very, very different from killing all of them. In any given population, there are many, many, many germs. And leaving one alive is (theoretically) sufficient for it to reproduce. So if you're not killing all (100%) of them, there's still a chance you'll get sick.
37 Wikipedia lists large scale numbers here. 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 in American and British English and 100 trillion in most (non-English speaking) other places.
And the usage always seems to involve a number between 100 and 200: "a buck fifty" and so forth (the term seems to be wedded to the indefinite article: "a buck something ").
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It's not a myth: you really can get rid of your student loans in court. For decades, student-loan borrowers seeking relief through bankruptcy rarely succeeded. However, 2022 guidance implemented by ...