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[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

Laughs in ambiguous notation

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

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