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(thing) by ariels (4.6 d) (print)

Thu Mar 08 2001 at 10:48:55

The percent sign (a corruption of how you'd write parts-per-100).
In BBC BASIC, a variable name suffix denoting an integer. So "LET I%=3.14159 : PRINT I%" would print "3". The one-letter integer variables @%,A%,...,Z% were even more special: they were stored in fixed places in page 4 (&400..&4FF), so access to them didn't go through a symbol table, and was fast.
In C (and awk, C++, Perl, Python, TCL, PHP, and every other language out there after C), the "modulo" operation. Be careful with negative arguments, though!
In csh and derivatives (and copycats!) a prefix to denote a job.
In Perl, a variable prefix denoting a hash.
In Nethack, FOOD.

(thing) by rp (1.7 d) (print)

Thu Mar 08 2001 at 11:51:43

in Postscript, it marks comments.
in many programming languages, it represents the modulus operation; taking the remainder after integer division
in the SQL LIKE clause, in make's pattern rules (supported in Sun make and GNU make, but not in BSD make), and other contexts, % is the wildcard character

(thing) by Azure Monk (4.6 y) (print)

Sun May 06 2001 at 3:04:48

The "%" symbol is...

a symbol representation of the word 'percent'.
the operator for modulus in the C programming language (and elsewhere).
ASCII ID 37 (25 in Hex).
typed by holding shift and pressing 5 on a keyboard.
hard to link to on E2. This is because it has special meaning within a URL, for representing characters in hexidecimal. Putting brackets around a % will create an invalid link that kicks you back to the homenode: %.

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pattern rule	Modulus	NetHack	PostScript
HTML Special Characters	Given that a and b are integers, a^2 = b^3, and a is even, prove that a must be divisible by 4	complex number division	division ring
long division	hash	Unicode European Alphabets	hexadecimal
The Art of Looking Sideways	SQL	BBC BASIC	integer
Percent	HTML symbol reference

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