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2026年09月20日 14:50
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percent
1560s, per cent, from Mod.L. per centum "by the hundred" (see per and hundred). Until early 20c. often treated as an abbreviation and punctuated accordingly

decimal
c.1600, from M.L. decimalis "of tithes or tenths," from L. decimus "tenth," from decem "ten" (see ten). Applied to Arabic notation before modern sense of "decimal fractions" emerged. As a noun from 1640s.