Percent sign, the Glossary
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.[1]
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93 relations: Active Server Pages, Arabic, ASCII, B (programming language), BASIC, Basis point, Batch file, British English, Bureau of Normalization, C (programming language), C shell, Character (computing), Chinese language, Cmd.exe, Colon (punctuation), Command-line interface, COMMAND.COM, Comment (computer programming), Computing, Croatian language, Czech language, Descender, Dialect, DIN 5008, Dutch language, Eastern Arabic numerals, Environment variable, Finnish language, Finnish noun cases, Fraction, French language, German language, GNU Octave, Hacker culture, Hash table, Hebrew language, Hexadecimal, Idiolect, Institute of Croatian Language, Integer, INTERCAL, International Bureau of Weights and Measures, International Organization for Standardization, International System of Units, Italian language, ITU-T, Jargon, Joseph Fourier University, Language Council of Sweden, MATLAB, ... Expand index (43 more) »
- Mathematical symbols
Active Server Pages
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side scripting language and engine for dynamic web pages.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
B (programming language)
B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
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BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use.
Basis point
A basis point (often abbreviated as bp, often pronounced as "bip" or "beep") is one hundredth of 1 percentage point. Percent sign and basis point are Typographical symbols.
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Batch file
A batch file is a script file in DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows.
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British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
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Bureau of Normalization
The Bureau of Normalization (NBN; Bureau voor Normalisatie; Bureau de normalisation) is the Belgian national organization for standardization and is the country's ISO member body.
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C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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C shell
The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s.
Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Cmd.exe
Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS operating systems.
Colon (punctuation)
The colon,, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. Percent sign and colon (punctuation) are Typographical symbols.
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Command-line interface
A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.
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COMMAND.COM
COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.
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In computer programming, a comment is a programmer-readable explanation or annotation in the source code of a computer program.
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Computing
Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery.
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Croatian language
Croatian (hrvatski) is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by Croats.
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Czech language
Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
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Descender
In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.
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Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
DIN 5008
The German national standard DIN 5008 by Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) specifies writing and layout rules for word processing.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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Eastern Arabic numerals
The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.
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Environment variable
An environment variable is a user-definable value that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer.
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Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
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Finnish noun cases
Finnish nominals, which include pronouns, adjectives, and numerals, are declined in a large number of grammatical cases, whose uses and meanings are detailed here.
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Fraction
A fraction (from fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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GNU Octave
GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation.
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Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy—often in collective effort—the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of software systems or electronic hardware (mostly digital electronics), to achieve novel and clever outcomes.
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Hash table
In computing, a hash table is a data structure often used to implement the map (a.k.a. dictionary or associative array) abstract data type.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen.
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Idiolect
Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech.
Institute of Croatian Language
The Institute for the Croatian Language (Institut za hrvatski jezik, IHJ), formerly known as the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics until 2023, is a state-run linguistics institute in Croatia whose purpose is to "preserve and foster" the Croatian language.
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Integer
An integer is the number zero (0), a positive natural number (1, 2, 3,...), or the negation of a positive natural number (−1, −2, −3,...). The negations or additive inverses of the positive natural numbers are referred to as negative integers.
INTERCAL
The Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL) is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and, two Princeton University students, in 1972.
International Bureau of Weights and Measures
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures, BIPM) is an intergovernmental organisation, through which its 59 member-states act on measurement standards in areas including chemistry, ionising radiation, physical metrology, as well as the International System of Units (SI) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
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International System of Units
The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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ITU-T
The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Jargon
Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity.
Joseph Fourier University
Joseph Fourier University (UJF, Université Joseph Fourier, also known as Grenoble I) was a French university situated in the city of Grenoble and focused on the fields of sciences, technologies and health.
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Language Council of Sweden
The Language Council of Sweden (Språkrådet) is the primary regulatory body for the advancement and cultivation of the Swedish language.
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MATLAB
MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks.
A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine.
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Mexican Spanish
Mexican Spanish (español mexicano) is the variety of dialects and sociolects of the Spanish language spoken in the United Mexican States.
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Modulo
In computing, the modulo operation returns the remainder or signed remainder of a division, after one number is divided by another (called the modulus of the operation).
Non-breaking space
In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space, also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.
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Number
A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label.
Ordinal indicator
st described below is intentional and is different from the style 1st --> In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. Percent sign and ordinal indicator are Typographical symbols.
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Parts-per notation
In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction.
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Per mille
The phrase per mille indicates parts per thousand. Percent sign and per mille are Typographical symbols.
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Percent-encoding
URL encoding, officially known as percent-encoding, is a method to encode arbitrary data in a uniform resource identifier (URI) using only the US-ASCII characters legal within a URI.
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Percentage
In mathematics, a percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100.
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Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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PostScript
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.
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Printf
printf is a C standard library function that formats text and writes it to standard output.
Programming language
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.
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Python (programming language)
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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Ratio
In mathematics, a ratio shows how many times one number contains another.
Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems
The Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires is a joint computer science research center of CNRS, University of Rennes 1, ENS Rennes, INSA Rennes and Inria, in Rennes in Brittany.
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Right-to-left script
In a script (commonly shortened to right to left or abbreviated RTL, RL-TB or R2L), writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left, proceeding from top to bottom for new lines.
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Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
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Scanf
scanf, short for scan formatted, is a C standard library function that reads and parses text from standard input.
Scribal abbreviation
Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.
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Sigil (computer programming)
In computer programming, a sigil is a symbol affixed to a variable name, showing the variable's datatype or scope, usually a prefix, as in $foo, where $ is the sigil.
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Slash (punctuation)
The slash is the oblique slanting line punctuation mark.
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Slovak language
Slovak (endonym: slovenčina or slovenský jazyk), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish language in the United States
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States.
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SQL
Structured Query Language (SQL) (pronounced S-Q-L; historically "sequel") is a domain-specific language used to manage data, especially in a relational database management system (RDBMS).
String (computer science)
In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.
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Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
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TeX
TeX (see below), stylized within the system as, is a typesetting program which was designed and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth and first released in 1978.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Turkic languages
The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia.
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Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.
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Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
Uniform Resource Identifier
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, such as resources on a webpage, mail address, phone number, books, real-world objects such as people and places, concepts.
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Unit of measurement
A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Visual Basic
Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft.
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Visual Basic for Applications
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6.0 built into most desktop Microsoft Office applications.
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Well-formed formula
In mathematical logic, propositional logic and predicate logic, a well-formed formula, abbreviated WFF or wff, often simply formula, is a finite sequence of symbols from a given alphabet that is part of a formal language.
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Wildcard character
In software, a wildcard character is a kind of placeholder represented by a single character, such as an asterisk, which can be interpreted as a number of literal characters or an empty string.
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See also
Mathematical symbols
- 't Hooft symbol
- Armenian eternity sign
- Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol
- Commercial minus sign
- Degree symbol
- Division sign
- Double turnstile
- Equals sign
- Formulario mathematico
- Glossary of mathematical symbols
- Greater-than sign
- ISO 31-11
- Infinity symbol
- Integral symbol
- Less-than sign
- List of mathematical abbreviations
- Logic symbols
- Maps to
- Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
- Mathematical Operators (Unicode block)
- Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode
- Multiplication sign
- Nabla symbol
- Null sign
- Ordered set operators
- Percent sign
- Plus and minus signs
- Plus–minus sign
- Prime (symbol)
- Radical symbol
- Symbols for zero
- Table of mathematical symbols by introduction date
- Tetractys
- Therefore sign
- Tilde
- Tombstone (typography)
- Triple bar
- Turnstile (symbol)
- Up tack
- Vinculum (symbol)
- X mark
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_sign
Also known as %, % sign, &percnt, ASCII 37, Arabic percent sign, Per cent sign, Percent mark, Percent signs, Percent symbol, Percentage sign, Percentage symbol, Slash with two zeros, U+0025, \x25, , ٪.
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