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Nora
How to read 0.1%?
Is it "o point one percent"?
What do people usually say?
And how about 0.24%, 3.82% and something like these.
I would appreciate if somebody could summarize the general idea.
Thanks in advance:)
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'Zero point one per cent.' Most common.
'Nought by one per cent.' Not uncommon, in the UK at least.
If the number in front of the decimal is a zero, you can also just say 'point one per cent.'
You can only really say 3.82% one way: three point eight two per cent.
0.24% would be 'zero point two four per cent','nought point two four per cent' or 'point two four per cent.'
I've heard non-native speakers say things like 'zero point twenty four percent' but native speakers don't read decimals like that.
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Paul and Dan have good answers, but personally, in rapid conversation, I would just say "point one percent" (and I have science degrees!)
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I'm a U.S. native speaker. I personally would read this as "oh point one percent." I would read the others as "oh point twenty-four percent" and "three point eighty-two percent."
In my science classes, I was taught always to put a zero in front of the decimal point. The reason is that the zero makes it easier to see that the decimal point is there and prevents errors. I carry this over into speech. I would always read the zero (as "oh") if it is printed, and I might well say it even if it is not printed.
If, for example, I am trying to communicate over the phone to someone who was trying to transcribe what I was saying, then I'd read them character by character, reading 0 as "zero," thus "zero point one percent," "zero point two four percent."
0.1% is a special case. Depending on the context and how precise I think the value is, I might possibly read this as "a tenth of a percent." In a financial context, I might read it as "ten basis points!"
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0.1% nought / zero point one per cent
0.24% zero point twenty-four percent
3.82%: three point eight two per cent.
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