Percentages Are Stupid

(and other things I will not be debating)

Percent comes from “per cent” — meaning “for each hundred.” This is fine, except it’s never what I need.

Percent

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In programming, I constantly work with numbers between 0.f and 1.f — you know, normalised values. Like 0.5 = 50%. As a result, calling it a percent feels wrong. I’m not measuring something "per hundred", I want to express "per one".

So, years ago, I started using the term perune.

As in: per une (French), meaning per one.

It’s cleaner, makes semantic sense, and is one character shorter.

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I think perune should be normalised.

Yes, that’s a pun. I stand by it.

Perune