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Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake by simoncion on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @06:45PM (#10268766)
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.
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Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @06:55PM (#10268821)
> 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.)

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Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake by simoncion on Thursday September 24, 2015 @12:58AM (#10269904)
I rather like %p.

What would ‰p mean? Percent-degree-points?

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Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake by dragonwriter on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:15AM (#10270123)
"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.

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Re:iOS9 already driving IPv6 uptake by eru on Thursday September 24, 2015 @04:13AM (#10270441)
Promille points.
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