prosentissa
Prosentissa is the Finnish term for expressing a quantity as a percentage, that is, as a part per one hundred. A percentage is a dimensionless ratio that relates a part to a whole, and it is denoted with the symbol %. In practice, prosentissa values indicate how many parts out of 100 are being referred to.
Conversion and notation: A value expressed in prosentissa can be converted to a decimal by dividing by
Applications: Percentages are widely used in statistics, economics, finance, epidemiology, and everyday life to describe shares,
Terminology and related concepts: In Finnish, prosentti is the unit, and prosenttiyksikkö refers to the difference
Pitfalls: When reporting percentages, the base or denominator should be stated, as percentages describe a portion