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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by HourglassFR on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:15AM (#22308944)
My guess is the editor somehow messed up the per thousand sign ‱

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_point

edit: My bad. Correct character, incorrect description. It is indeed "ten thousand".

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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by jfk13 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:17AM (#22309437)
Somewhat ironically, I think you're off by one character here.

Unicode U+2031 ‱ is actually the per ten thousand sign (check its character name).

Unicode U+2030 ‰ is the per thousand (or "per mille") sign.

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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by airstrike on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:00PM (#22311637)
The one thing worse than off-by-one errors are off-by-zero errors.
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