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[–] Droggelbecher 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

Laughs in ambiguous notation

[–] Droggelbecher 2 points 2 days ago

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