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One part per hundred is generally represented by the percent sign (%) and denotes one part per 100 (10 2) parts, and a value of 10 −2. This is equivalent to about fourteen minutes out of one day. One part per thousand should generally be spelled out in full and not as "ppt" (which is usually understood to represent "parts per trillion").
In most forms of English, percent is usually written as two words (per cent), although percentage and percentile are written as one word. [9] In American English, percent is the most common variant [10] (but per mille is written as two words). In the early 20th century, there was a dotted abbreviation form "per cent.", as opposed to "per cent".
The percent sign % (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. Related signs include the permille (per thousand) sign ‰ and the permyriad (per ten thousand) sign ‱ (also known as a basis point), which indicate that a number is divided by one thousand or ten thousand, respectively.
The word promille is the cognate in Dutch, German, Finnish and Swedish, and is sometimes seen as a loanword in English with the same meaning as per mille. [7] [4] The symbol is included in the General Punctuation block of Unicode at U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN. [5] There is also an Arabic-Indic per mille sign at U+0609 ؉ ARABIC-INDIC PER MILLE SIGN.
Various ways of expressing fineness have been used and two remain in common use: millesimal fineness expressed in units of parts per 1,000 [1] and karats or carats used only for gold. Karats measure the parts per 24, so that 18 karat = 18 ⁄ 24 = 75% and 24 karat gold is considered 100% gold.
Huntington Bank recommends writing $130.45 as “One hundred thirty and 45/100.” If you’re wondering how to write $450 in words on a check, that would make $450 look like “Four hundred fifty ...
From January 2008 to May 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William N. Kelley joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -35.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -10.3 percent return from the S&P 500.
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