The top tenth of one per cent get about ten per cent of income, and the top hundredth of one per cent about five per cent.
For the athletes, one-hundredth of a second can mean the difference between silver and gold, between obscurity and million-dollar contracts.
Saunders qualified eighth-fastest, by the margin of one hundredth of a second.
BBC: First Commonwealth Games golds for England and Scotland
In the mid-1980s the smallest features on chips were 1 to 2 microns wide, about one hundredth the diameter of a human hair.
In the mid-1980s the smallest features on chips were 1 or 2 microns wide, about one-hundredth the width of a human hair.
"You're asking it to work on something one one-hundredth the thickness of a human hair, " says Chief Executive Kirlin.
The N95 blocks 95% of particles bigger than 0.3 microns, or one-three-hundredth the width of a human hair.
It's about one-hundredth of the economy--before the militias razed it to the ground.
Volunteers are given tiny traces of a radioactively labelled drug too small to harm them, and typically just one-hundredth of the estimated full dose in a drink.
One specific material he is working on may be suitable as a replacement technology for photovoltaic cells, one that promises to be one-hundredth of the cost of existing solar cells, which can overcome whatever efficiency loss it represents.
Eventually, the Galileo team gave up on the main antenna and reprogrammed the craft to use its smaller secondary dish, which transmits data at a hundredth of the speed of the main one.
All this, and it's just one hundredth of an inch thicker than the Apple.
After missing out on bronze by one-hundredth of a second at the 2012 Olympics, Gay's goal for this summer is a medal at the world championships in Moscow in August.
The Dioula were found to have a homicide rate equivalent of one hundredth of a death per 1, 000 people per year, and a left-handedness rate of just 3%.
That transaction itself happens to be fairly heavyweight, because it makes an extensive query of the database, and that might take one second, whereas normal transactions take one hundredth of a second.
Australian schoolboy Ian Thorpe came within one one-hundredth of a second of setting a new world record in the men's 200m freestyle.
Cuban 110m hurdler Dayron Robles beat American rival David Oliver by one-hundredth of a second for his third Golden League win of the season.
Four years later she went into the Olympic final on the back of a 16-final winning streak but finished fourth, missing a medal by one hundredth of a second.
As a result, since 2005 the website has called for rain when there is no measurable downpour less than one-hundredth of an inch nearly twice as often as it has shown no rain in its icons before rain occurs, according to the website Forecast Advisor, which tracks weather forecasts.
The web is awash in well-deserved tributes to Milton Friedman on what would have been his one hundredth birthday.
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