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I would love to have a symbol that represents this unit scale as an analogue to '%'. I.e. you could say 33% or 0.33x where where 'x' indicates a normalized decimal from 0.0 to 1.0.


There was the "uno" proposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts-per_notation#Uno

I'm glad it never caught on.


Interesting, although that goes the other way, indicating different degrees of implied scaling (rather than none). If you were labeling a header or axis on a chart, or naming a variable you'd probably include the word "decimal", "fraction", or "scalar".




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