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For reference- she was at 0.091% BAC
England has a driving limit of 0.08%
For those confused: Americans use percentage for blood alcohol concentration.
That's 0.91‰ and 0.8‰ respectively.
% is percent, ‰ is per mille (thousand)
What do non-Americans use?
Like floquant said, many European countries use per mille (which is denoted by ‰). It's easy to convert those two but you first have to realize the need for conversion if you don't read carefully (since the symbols % and ‰ look similar at first glance).
holy shit 0_o as an American, I have never seen this symbol in my life.
But they still mean percent yeah?
No, per mille does not mean per cent. 1000 does not equal 100.
So they measure bac by the mile? This does not make sense.
mille, not mile. mille means thousand, so "per mille" means "per thousand", just as "per cent" means "per hundred". so 10‰ is 1%
They are similar in the same way as millimeters and centimeters, hectograms and kilograms, etc. One is 10 times smaller than the other, so they represent the same unit at different scales. The name "per cent(o)" means 1 in 100, while "per mille" means 1 in 1000
Blood alcohol level.
Per cent is per hundered (1/100). The sign is %.
Per mille is per thousand (1/1000). The sign is ‰.
It's basically used to say 0.1% as 1‰ without using decimals because fuck them.
On another note, the symbols used are ingenious. The diagonal line represents "1", and the number of o's is the same as in the number (two for hundered and three for thousand)
I read it as per mile first. I was soo confused. Lol
Yeah, it's the same unit just offset by a factor of ten:
% = 10 * ‰
Oh, I see. Yes this makes sense thank you
Strictly speaking, they're not even units. Just shorthand for a factor.
Can attend the flight / can not attend the flight
Irrelevant
Thank you
What's the limit at her company for her job, though? I'm assuming that's the limit we're discussing here, unless she was trying to drive the plane.
0.02% according to the article.
Why is the driving limit 4 times higher than the limit for acting as a flight attendant?