• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Why do you guys say “per cent” instead of “percent”? Isn’t “per cent” per 1000? If so, then this reduction is almost nothing, only 3.5%.

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      8 months ago

      Isn’t “per cent” per 1000?

      What? “per cent” is literally “per 100”?

      Some writing styles even favour per cent written separately, it works the same.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Oh, I thought cent was 1000. I’m thinking of M, like CPM. I guess it should have been obvious, given that a hundred years is a century. Thanks for answering my question instead of just downvoting it like people do on this website.