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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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Wouldn't surprise me if % were invented to scam people. Why wouldn't you just use decimals or fractions for everything.
There I also no non-scam reason why we suddenly use +/- when it comes to percents rather than multiplication. There is also multiple ways how multiple percentages are combined in practice, it's not consistent.
Percents are decimals…. You just multiply them not add them and people are stupid.
It's a good awful notation for relative change.