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In article <1166108452.870091.273470@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>,
Prisoner at War <prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi, All:

>Is it written "95 in 100 samples" or "95 in a 100 samples"?  Does "100"
>mean "one hundred" or "a hundred"?  If you were to read the statement
>"95 in 100 samples" out loud, what do you say for "100"?

In this case, who cares?  It conveys the same meaning.

Likewise, in the simple case of the binomial theorem, 

	(x + y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2,

it does not matter if the "y" is pronounced "why" or "ygrec".

>And what's the deal with stuff like putting question marks inside
>quotation marks?  I understand that typographically it looks better to
>tuck everything within quotes, though logically it might lead to the
>implication that the question mark is a part of the quote (say, in the
>case of the title of an article).  I've seen it done both ways,
>actually, on the NYT website....

I sometimes follow the typographical "rules", but not always,
and in fact mostly not.  Try to get the meaning across in
the written language.

>TIA!



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