How to pronounce 0.11％ in Japanese?

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Sometimes I heard people refer 0.11% as

レイテン　イチイチ　パーセント

While others believe

レイテン　ジュウイチ　パーセント

is more correct.

Which version is more popularly accepted?

others believe レイテン　ジュウイチ　パーセント is more correct -- I wonder how they read 0.111111111... — chocolate, Commented Jun 8, 2019 at 2:35
“Zero point eleven percent” is not a correct expression mathematically. I highly doubt that any language officially expresses the number that way. — dROOOze, Commented Jun 8, 2019 at 3:06
@droooze Doubt all you want, but there are languages which do. In all the Scandinavian languages, for example, it would be very unusual to pronounce 0,11% as anything other than nul komma elleve procent (using Danish as an example). Nobody would ever say nul komme et et. Even in English, where decimals tend towards individual readings, this does not hold for currency decimals: something may cost ten ninety-five or ten fifty, but never ten nine five or ten five oh. — Janus Bahs Jacquet, Commented Jun 8, 2019 at 13:39
^ @Tuomo キュウビョウキュウジュウジャナナ ←?? 「ジャ」って？「9秒97」は「キュウビョウキュウナナ 」です。→ youtube.com/watch?v=BhHOa_X2PJE — chocolate, Commented Jun 9, 2019 at 6:05
@Tuomo 0.18 mg/l and I think one would use コッマジュウハチ ← 「コンマジュウハチ」ですか？普通は「呼気１リットルあたりレイテンイチハチミリグラム」って言います。→ news24.jp/nnn/news162132634.html — chocolate, Commented Jun 9, 2019 at 6:40

vlumi · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-08 02:56:07Z

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Double-checked this with a native speaker, and they said it’s definitely レイテン　イチイチ　パーセント — the other one would be understandable but strange.

answered Jun 8, 2019 at 2:56

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