Percent Sign

The percent sign, %, sometimes called the per cent sign in British English, is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, meaning a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. Related signs include the permille, or per thousand, sign and the permyriad, or per ten thousand, sign, and higher proportions are expressed using parts per notation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/