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Questions about redundant constructions, pleonasms, etc.

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Is it redundant to say "percentage of one hundred"?

I have seen the word "percentage" defined as "a number or rate that is expressed as a certain number of parts of something divided into 100 parts". It seems to follow that 50% means "50 parts of some …
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