You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. 1991 burton w. Kanter, aarpβ€”asset accumulation, retention and protection, taxes 69:

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 ratio. The /100 refers to cents, since there are 100 cents in a dollar. Sometimes people write and no cents after the word dollars, or the word exactly before the (verbal) number of dollars.

Sometimes people write and no cents after the word dollars, or the word exactly before the (verbal) number of dollars.