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Canada to reduce the number of international study permits by 35 per cent: Miller (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Yup, M is for “mille”.

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