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by JadeNB 1359 days ago
> Think of it as a ratio(+) not percentages so

> Flour 100 parts, water 66 parts and so on

> (+) because that is what it is

It is! But it's a ratio to a standard 100 … and that's literally what a percentage is ("per centum" = "by the hundred").