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minus-square@DroggelbecherlinkEnglish5•1 month agoIm 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month ago Maths always tries to have agreed-upon unambiguous definitions of things, precisely to avoid confusion. Laughs in ambiguous notation
minus-square@DroggelbecherlinkEnglish2•1 month agoI thought of an example or two and corrected my comment to ‘tries to’ as I was typing haha
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.
Laughs in ambiguous notation
I thought of an example or two and corrected my comment to ‘tries to’ as I was typing haha