OFF: per cent with a .

[Susan79]

Werid thing here at work today.

In a legal text we got things like this:

10 per cent. of 90
... per cent. of the sum

etc...

per cent, yes, ok, it can be written as two words and often is, but why the period after cent?
I can't find anything to support this period being there and thought maybe someone here has seen it before and can prove/disprove the need for it.

[Susan79]

stupid arcahic latin legal things. eh.....

[Armagedo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent

In the early part of the twentieth century, there was a dotted abbreviation form "per cent.", as opposed to "per cent". The form "per cent." is still in use as a part of the highly formal language found in certain documents like commercial loan agreements (particularly those subject to, or inspired by, common law), as well as in the Hansard transcripts of British Parliamentary proceedings. While the term has been attributed to Latin per centum, this is a pseudo-Latin construction and the term was likely originally adopted from the French pour cent.

[Susan79]

Armagedo

Yup, I got that already. I found it right after I posted this. I have seen a lot of weird things with percent and per cent and per centum but I had never seen per cent. per annum. until today.
:)

[Alexander Oshis]

I have seen a lot of weird things with percent and per cent and per centum but I had never seen per cent. per annum. until today

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (c) Bill S.
;-)

[Susan79]

AO

:))))