percentage sign

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Noun percentage sign has 1 sense

percent sign, percentage sign - %
--₁ is a kind of character, grapheme, graphic symbol

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Percentage Sign

A percentage sign is a symbol used in mathematics and computing to indicate a proportion or percentage.

Usage

As a Symbol: The percentage sign (%) is used to represent a fraction divided by 100.
In Mathematics: It is commonly used to calculate percentages or express ratios and proportions.
In Computing: The percentage sign is often used in programming languages, regular expressions, and URL encoding.

Examples

As a Symbol: To represent 75% as a fraction, we write it as 75/100 or simply 75%.
In Mathematics: To calculate a 20% discount on a $100 item, you subtract $20 from $100.
In Computing: In HTML, the percentage sign is used in URL encoding to represent special characters, such as %20 for a space.

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