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1. per cent

   In mathematics, a percentage (from Latin: per centum, "by a hundred") is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%", although the abbreviations "pct.", "pct" and sometimes "pc" are also used. A percentage is a dimensionless number (pure number); it has no unit of measurement.

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1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Per Cent' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #204

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Per Cent' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1084

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Per Cent in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Per Cent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Per Cent in a Sentence

1. National University:

   Rotary winged aircraft are significantly less efficient at generating lift compared to their fixed wing counterparts [so] a viable 100 per cent solar rotary aircraft that can take-off and land vertically remains a major engineering challenge to date.

2. Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931:

   If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

3. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   Less than 30 per cent of Russian strikes are against Daesh targets.

4. Carenza Lewis:

   This new research offers a novel solution to that evidential challenge, using finds of pottery – a highly durable indicator of human presence - as a proxy for population change in a manner that is both scalable and replicable, it shows that pottery use fell by almost a half in eastern England in the centuries immediately after the Black Death. This supports the emerging consensus that the population of England remained somewhere between 35 and 55 per cent below its pre-Black Death level well into the sixteenth century.

5. Jamie LeSueur:

   The scale of devastation is enormous. It seems that 90 per cent of the area is completely destroyed, almost everything is destroyed. Communication lines have been completely cut and roads have been destroyed.

References

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