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It makes most sense in formulas: Instead of x=(foo/100) * (bar/100) * baz you can do x=foo * bar * baz. Which is rather more readable! Probabilities in s
by Kim_Bruning 6y ago
It makes most sense in formulas:
Instead of x=(foo/100) * (bar/100) * baz
you can do x=foo * bar * baz.
Which is rather more readable!
Probabilities in statistics are also expressed in this manner.
Meanwhile I found out that the Dutch dictionary actually has Perunage for this usage, especially in finance. So maybe that's he term I'll start using?
- rocqua 6y agoLooked it up, and a 'perunage' is defined as 'a percentage divided by a hundred'.
- Kim_Bruning 6y agoWhich is indeed technically correct, and even an easy way to explain it the first time. Of course this rather undersells the elegance and simplicity of perunages, but I'll take it.
- FabHK 6y agoNot constrained to the interval [0,1], though: The change in the stockmarket was -5 percent or -0.05 perunage today, but +300 percent or +3 perunage over the last xyz years.
- mannykannot 6y agoSo it is synonymous with 'ratio'?
- jjgreen 6y agoLatin for one is ūnus, so percent -> perun would be logical, those sensible Dutch ...
- civil_engineer 6y agoThis the right answer! permyriad -> per 1000. percent -> per 100. perunage -> per 1. I now have another way to impress/irritate my peers!
- mannykannot 6y agoI like it, but as I do not work in a Dutch-speaking environment, if I were to do this, someone would eventually come along and 'fix' it (assuming I could get it through review in the first place.)