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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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%.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yup, M is for “mille”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

As said by other users, percent is the same as per cent. per 1000 is per mille as in per one thousand(mille) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille