I'm looking for recommendations on how best to abbreviate the following demographic income range:     1 below 3,000,000 Japanese yen (JPY)   2 between 3,000,000 and 4,999,999 JPY   3 between 5,000,000 JPY and 7,999,999 JPY   4 8,000,000 JPY and above   Would it be correct to rewrite as:     1 below 3M JPY    2 between 3M and 4.9M JPY   3 between 5M and 7.9M JPY   4 8M JPY and above   Should the M for million be in caps or lower case, and should there be a space between the number and the m?
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When specifying a range of values that have a unit of measure associated with them, what is the best practice for where to include the unit of measure?      1lb - 20lb   Or     1 - 20lb   And how would this apply when using metric prefixes?     1KΩ - 20MΩ   Or     1K - 20MΩ
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There are already topics very close to my question, but not quite there. Does anyone know what to do about this:     We review our accounts p.a. (at the end of the year).   Normally, without the text in parentheses, the "." after "a" would suffice to end the sentence, but then the parentheses come into play.  Should there be another period after the parentheses like in my example, or no?
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I have much more experience programming than I do with advanced mathematics, so perhaps this is just a comfort thing with me, but I often get frustrated when I try to follow mathematical notation. Specifically, I get frustrated trying to keep track of what each variable signifies.  As a programmer, this would be completely unacceptable no matter how many comments you added explaining it:  float A(float P, float r, float n, float t) {   return P * pow(1 + r / n, n * t); }   Yet a mathematician would have no problem with this:     $A = P\ \left(1+\dfrac{r}{n}\right)^{nt}$      where   $A$ = final amount   $P$ = principal amount (initial investment)   $r$ = annual nominal interest rate (as a decimal)   $n$ = number of times the interest is compounded per year   $t$ = number of years   So why don't I ever see the following?  $\text{final_amount} = \text{principal}\; \left(1+\dfrac{\text{interest_rate}}{\text{periods_per_yr}}\right)^{\text{periods_per_yr}\cdot\text{years}}$
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I’m not sure of whether this is grammatically correct, although I've encountered the same expression many times before.     Most Google searches show it produces 35 times less carbon than the report suggested.   Does 35 times less have a precise meaning in this context, or is it ambiguous here? Does either of these two possibities apply?   the original amount minus 35 times the original amount (35 times less than 100 units would be −3400 units) ¹⁄₃₅ of the original amount (35 times less than 100 units would be  2&nbsp;⁶⁄₇ units)
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I'm thinking about making a headline. I know you would use a comma here:     Professor Bill Bick then told me, "There will be more jobs when the   economy recovers."   What about here?     Read Professor Bill Bick's article, "Why There Will be More Jobs When   the Economy Recovers."   Are commas used before article titles that are quoted?
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I looked up a few grammar-teaching websites (in Chinese language). The website says many people do not use the phrase "A xxx of" correctly because they do not identify the subject of the phrase correctly.   The website says phrases like "A range of; A high percentage of" is singular, while "a number of; a group of; a couple of; a total of" is plural.  Therefore according to the website, the correct sentences should be as follows.     A wide range of courses is available. ("A wide range" is the subject)      A high percentage of peptides that are made of amino acids is present   in the sample. ("A high percentage" is the subject)      A number/ group/ couple of people were killed in the earthquake.("people" is the subject )       A total of 230 employees were laid off. ("employees" is the subject)   I don't get the pattern here. All of this looks (or should I use "look"?) arbitrary to me. In fact I thought this phrase is supposed to be arbitrary and whether the phrase is plural or singular should depend on the the person's own judgment.   How do I identify the correct subject in the "A xxx of" phrase?
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I am a little bit confused about using units in English, sometimes I hear that people use singular units for plural things, sometimes they use plural ones. Which one is correct?   3 meter(s) long? during a 2 week(s) period? 0.5 dollar(s)
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For example. If I want to quote a passage from a writing, that says     The cake is not a lie.   and my sentence is:     The book by author states that "The cake is not a lie." however studies show that the cake is a lie.   Is it OK to replace the period with a comma to make the sentence flow?  Relevant: Also what do you do with the capital "T" Are you allowed to lowercase it?     The book by author states "the cake is not a lie," however studies show that the cake is a lie.   I usually just work around this by switching up the structure of the sentence, but sometimes I really want to phrase something a particular way.
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If you don’t have 25k reputation, the  contains a stub text:        As you can see on the image, the dot should be moved outside the quotes. Also, on ruSO we need to  from “” to «», but this is not possible via Transifex, because there is no full sentence available to translate.
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I've been writing checks this way for the last ~15 years or so:    Namely, the amount field is written using numbers like     1,500 and 00/100    rather than the tedious, painful spelling out of      One Thousand Five Hundred and 00/100   99 times out of 100, this works fine. But occasionally you'll get certain rare human tellers who simply refuse to believe this is a valid check and you have to fight over it. I still figure the time I've saved by not writing out all those ridiculous numbers-as-words is still worth it, overall, but it's definitely irritating.  So: who's right? Is a check with the amount written in numbers valid ... or not?
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I have few seemingly simple questions.   I am working on time series data and applying vector error correction model. I find different results when I transform the data into LOG and LN. Which one is better? I have variables in % and in levels (numbers). I have for example one which is measured in million USD and others in %. My question: shall I list the whole number in eviews like 47,000,000,000 or just 47 and then bring in the billion when interpreting the results? Does it make any difference when running Johansen's test?
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Is it necessary to use comma in a big number? For example, if anyone writes one million four hundred thousand and two as 1400002 instead of 1,400,002 on answer sheet of listening section of IELTS test, will it be considered incorrect?  Thanks in advance.
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I have occasionally wanted to refer to a range of equations in my document.  So far, I've been using Equations~\eqref{firstEquation}~--~\eqref{lastEquation}, which produces something like "Equations (5) - (12)".  I recognize that this could make it harder to maintain the document if equations get shifted around, but I still prefer it to something like "Equations (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), and (12)".  Is there a standard or accepted way to refer to a range of equations like this?  Or should I just keep doing whatever looks best to me?
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When writing a quote for an order for products, would you write  25K or 25M to refer to 25,000 parts or pounds or units?
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I'm writing the following sentence:     Women lead uptake at XX%.   But a friend is saying that it should be written:     Women lead uptake with XX%.   Which one is correct?
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This is best illustrated with an example:  Nikkie has 7 children. Sam has no children. Sam thinks Nikkie's kids are cute, but she thinks it would be a lot of work to raise them all together.   Sam: "Your children are so cute, but I think 7 children (1) is or (2) are too many to raise together!"  First of all, I do understand that plural nouns require plural verbs, and yes, "child/children" is a countable noun; thus "Your children are so cute." However, as I think of the meaning of the phrase "7 children" more and more, doesn't it become a sort of measurement like dollars, miles, liters, etc?   Like we say, "1,000,000 dollars is a lot of money," should't we say "7 children is too many to raise together"? Or am I over-analyzing here?
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Is there a single ᴀᴅᴊᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ to denote short, sweet, to the point?    I am thinking of  but I'm not sure that it connotes elegance/brevity, which is an important aspect of the meaning I would like to convey.