who is the creator of percentage?

Question

is it wrong to say 120%.how the symbol derived.vote for me this question (ha ha)

Answer 1

From Wikipedia...

In British English, percent is usually written as two words (per cent). In American English, percent is the most common variant. In the early part of the twentieth century, there was a dotted abbreviation form per cent.. While the term has been attributed to Latin per centum, this is a pseudo-Latin construction and the term was likely originally adopted from Italian per cento or French pour cent. The concept of considering values as parts of a hundred is originally Greek.

The symbol for percent "%" evolved from a symbol abbreviating the Italian per cento.

Answer 2

A percentage is a way of expressing numbers as fractions of 100 and is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". For example, "45.1%" (read as "forty five point one percent") is equal to 0.451. Although percentages are usually used to express numbers between zero and one, any number can be expressed as a percentage. For instance, 111% is 1.11 and -0.35% is -0.0035.
In British English, percent is usually written as two words (per cent). In American English, percent is the most common variant. In the early part of the twentieth century, there was a dotted abbreviation form per cent.. While the term has been attributed to Latin per centum, this is a pseudo-Latin construction and the term was likely originally adopted from Italian per cento or French pour cent. The concept of considering values as parts of a hundred is originally Greek.

The symbol for percent "%" evolved from a symbol abbreviating the Italian per cento.
for thourough information go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent

Answer 3

Percent has been used since the end of the fifteenth century in business problems such as computing interest, profit and loss, and taxes. However, the idea had its origin much earlier. When the Roman emperor Augustus levied a tax on all goods sold at auction, centesima rerum venalium, the rate was 1/100. Other Roman taxes were 1/20 on every freed slave and 1/25 on every slave sold. Without recognising percentages as such, they used fractions easily reduced to hundredths.

The solidus form (%) is modern.

An 120% is not correct (mathemathically speacking...). But is commonly accepted in other sciences for pointing (in chemistry for example) some important properties (and not only). For example it is correct to say a "Sulfuric acid with concentration of 110%" with other words... you will "melt" if you touch this...:D. Only a simple example...

check wikipedia or
http://www.roma.unisa.edu.au/07305/symbols.htm#Percent

Answer 4

In British English, percent is usually written as two words (per cent). In American English, percent is the most common variant. In the early part of the twentieth century, there was a dotted abbreviation form per cent.. While the term has been attributed to Latin per centum, this is a pseudo-Latin construction and the term was likely originally adopted from Italian per cento or French pour cent. The concept of considering values as parts of a hundred is originally Greek.

The symbol for percent "%" evolved from a symbol abbreviating the Italian per cento.

it's right to say 120% it means 6/5

Answer 5

It's not wrong to say 120% especially in terms of increases.
Check out this link for the origin of the percent symbol.

Answer 6

I created percentages. No, it is not wrong to say 120%; that just means you have an extra 20%. And no, I will not vote for you.

Answer 7

no it is absolutely correct to say 120% which means if a person had 100 earlier now he has 220....Symbol was derived based on 0/0 hypothesis for 100

Answer 8

Its ok to say 200% too.... 100 is the standard for percentage ... u need to measure using the standard...thats all.....

Answer 9

Tell me who is the creator?

NO. It is 12% only.

Answer 10

i dont know