Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake
by cbr on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @04:12PM
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It's a 33% increase, or an increase of 1.07 percentage points. It's not a 1.07% increase.
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Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake
by simoncion on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @06:45PM
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Hmm. As old as the concept of percentages is, you'd think that there would be a good symbol to indicate an increase in percentage points.
Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @06:55PM
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> As old as the concept of percentages is, you'd think that there would be a good symbol to indicate an increase in percentage points.
Uh, there is such a notation -- (sign)(# of percentage points change)pp. Or, in the instant case, +1.07pp.
(Though it would probably be more ideal if %p were accepted instead of pp, because then there would be a natural extention to ‰p, etc.)
Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake
by simoncion on Thursday September 24, 2015 @12:58AM
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I rather like %p.
What would ‰p mean? Percent-degree-points?
Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake
by dragonwriter on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:15AM
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"Per-milleage" [0] points (same relation to per-mille as percentage points are to percent; 1 percentage point = 10 per-milleage points = 100 basis points.)
[0] I have no idea if there is a standard term for this, and if there is, that's probably not it.
Promille points.
Yeah that seems to be the core of it. Without the percentage sign what they wrote seems technically valid but very likely to be misunderstood.