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  1. Today I learned that the percent symbol % apparently derived from writing “pc,” not from the fraction slash ⁄. (In fact, the slash seems to have derived from the percentage sign!) Also, if you do finance and want a new affectation, you can apparently write basis points as ‱. @Poynter/1111687553969766402
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