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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (17 children)

For those confused: Americans use percentage for blood alcohol concentration.

That's 0.91‰ and 0.8‰ respectively.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Like floquant said, many European countries use per mille (which is denoted by ‰). It's easy to convert those two but you first have to realize the need for conversion if you don't read carefully (since the symbols % and ‰ look similar at first glance).

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    But they still mean percent yeah?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, per mille does not mean per cent. 1000 does not equal 100.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Per cent is per hundered (1/100). The sign is %.

    Per mille is per thousand (1/1000). The sign is ‰.

    It's basically used to say 0.1% as 1‰ without using decimals because fuck them.

    On another note, the symbols used are ingenious. The diagonal line represents "1", and the number of o's is the same as in the number (two for hundered and three for thousand)

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