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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well it's ambiguous. Its also a sloppy way of expressing an increase by 80 percentage points.

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[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've always wondered how to disambiguate multiplication and addition of percentages. I guess that's what percentage points are for?

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I play video games; I need to know if the percentage is additive or multiplicative.

"+100%" looks pretty good until you see what "×25%" actually gives you.

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