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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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%.

[–] villasv 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] folkrav 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, M is for “mille”.

[–] twopi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As said by other users, percent is the same as per cent. per 1000 is per mille as in per one thousand(mille) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille