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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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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.

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fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de
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Maths always tries to have agreed-upon unambiguous definitions of things, precisely to avoid confusion.

Laughs in ambiguous notation

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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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I thought of an example or two and corrected my comment to ‘tries to’ as I was typing haha

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