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Hmm. As old as the concept of percentages is, you'd think that there would be a good symbol to indicate an increase in percentage points.

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > As old as the concept of percentages is, you'd think that there would be a good symbol to indicate an increase in percentage points. Uh, there is such a notation -- (sign)(# of percentage points change)pp. Or, in the instant case, +1.07pp. (Though it would probably be more ideal if %p were accepted instead of pp, because then there would be a natural extention to ‰p, etc.)
  • simoncion 11y ago
    I rather like %p. What would ‰p mean? Percent-degree-points?
    • dragonwriter 11y ago
      "Per-milleage" [0] points (same relation to per-mille as percentage points are to percent; 1 percentage point = 10 per-milleage points = 100 basis points.) [0] I have no idea if there is a standard term for this, and if there is, that's probably not it.
    • eru 11y ago
      Promille points.