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Definition of Percent sign
1. Noun. A sign ('%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percent Sign
Literary usage of Percent sign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. SAS(R) 9.1.3 Language Reference:: Dictionary, Fifth Edition, Volumes 1-4 by SAS Institute (2006)
"... them the same as the BESTu;.d format, adds a minus sign to the beginning of
the value, and adds a percent sign (%) to the end of the formatted value. ..."
2. SAS 9.1 Macro Language: Reference by Institute SAS Institute, SAS Institute (2004)
"Use... percent sign before a quotation mark - for percent sign with quotation
mark example, %' or %", EXAMPLE: %let percent=%str(Jim%'s office); ..."
3. SAS 9.1.3 Language Reference: Concepts by SAS Institute (2005)
"There are two special characters available for specifying a pattern: percent
sign (%) specifies that any number of characters can occupy that position. ..."
4. SAS(R) 9.1 Companion for OpenVMS Alpha by Sas Institute, Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"SAS;* The percent sign The percent sign (%) replaces a single character in
directory, file-specification, and file-type fields in the file specification. ..."
5. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"The other novelties occur in the first two lines of the body: the use of the
slash and percent-sign characters to find the quotient and remainder when ..."
6. SAS/ACCESS(R) 9.1 Supplement for ODBC(SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases) by Sas Institute, Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"The percent sign matches any sequence of zero or more characters; the underscore
represents any single character. Each driver also has an escape character ..."
7. SAS/ACCESS(R) 9.1 Interface to PC Files:: Reference by Institute SAS Institute, Sas Institute (2004)
"The percent sign matches any sequence of zero or more characters; the underscore
represents any single character. Each driver also has an escape character ..."
8. Myers Arithmetic by George William Myers (1908)
"Write first with the percent sign, then as decimals: 100 TW TW T(TO TW 100 TW TW
TW TOT TW TW TW rw TTTO TW 3. ..."
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