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While percentages are denoted as numbers between 0-100, they actually represent numbers between 0-1. Though you can have things like 120% so it's not perfect.
by proto-n 6y ago
While percentages are denoted as numbers between 0-100, they actually represent numbers between 0-1. Though you can have things like 120% so it's not perfect.
- cies 6y agoI did not mean it cannot exceed 1/100/1000. > they actually represent numbers between 0-1 Not really. The often represents, for instance, a population of 100M, then 0 means 0, 1 (or 100%) means 100M and 1.2 (or 120%) means 120M (in case of population growth).
- proto-n 6y agoWe are really arguing unimportant semantics here but I don't agree with you, when you say 50% of the population, you are saying 0.5 of the population or 0.5 of 100M. The 50% always represents 0.5 when used correctly, in fact the % sign is a different way of writing "/100" (with some artistic freedoms).
- rocqua 6y agoReally the percentage sign just denotes a centi-1. Just like a centi-meter is 1 hundreths of the unit 'a meter', a percentage is 1 hundreths of the a (unitless) unit '1'.