• Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    9 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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      9 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.