Percent

Type it

Ways to write the Percent symbol
UnicodeU+0025
LaTeX\%
HTML entity%
Character%

Meaning

Means parts per hundred, so a number followed by % is that number divided by 100. Compare with Per Mille and Division.

How to read it

25% = 0.25

is read “twenty-five percent equals zero point two five”.

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