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		HourglassFR on Feb 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No person who was born blind has ever been diagnos... My guess is the editor somehow messed up the per thousand sign ‱ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_point edit: My bad. Correct character, incorrect description. It is indeed "ten thousand".

jfk13 on Feb 12, 2020 [–]

Somewhat ironically, I think you're off by one character here.

Unicode U+2031 ‱ is actually the per ten thousand sign (check its character name).

Unicode U+2030 ‰ is the per thousand (or "per mille") sign.

airstrike on Feb 12, 2020 | [–]

The one thing worse than off-by-one errors are off-by-zero errors.

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