• @Droggelbecher
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    37 hours ago

    Im a high school maths teacher and that’s what we’re supposed to teach, % means percent, not percentage points. Maths always tries to have agreed-upon unambiguous definitions of things, precisely to avoid confusion.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 hours ago

      Maths always tries to have agreed-upon unambiguous definitions of things, precisely to avoid confusion.

      Laughs in ambiguous notation

      • @Droggelbecher
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        26 hours ago

        I thought of an example or two and corrected my comment to ‘tries to’ as I was typing haha