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Subject:Re: What's the term From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:11:25 -0700
At 03:11 PM 4/14/99 -0400, Chris Kowalchuk wrote:
>2.5% vs. .025.
>
>I believe you would call ".025" a decimal fraction, and "2.5%" a
>percentage. Both are real numbers, as opposed to whole numbers or
>integers (which can be negative), but that's not the distinction you
>want to make. Decimal fractions are always some part of 1, whereas
>percentages are always some part of 100. So, to my mind, using the term
>"percentage", or "expressed as a percentage", is really all you can say,
>and does indicate what you mean...
