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minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-210 days agoConvert percentage to fraction, i.e, 80% become 0.8 Then multiply with initial value If it says 80% more use initial + (initial*80) or simply initial*1.8 Or if it says 80% less, use - in above calculation or multiply by 0.2 I find percentages more neat when used as fractional number Edited to escape the multiplication symbol
minus-squarelemonskate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoIt’s really not even converting, as percent is literally “1/100” (per-cent = per 100). It’s purely convenient shorthand.
minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoYeah, the math straight up works in the fractional form
minus-squarereddit_sux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoI said that to a friend of mine how to get percentage by creating fraction. They were flabbergasted at the sorcery. The friend is a Doctrate of biological sciences and a professor. Where as I am just an engineer.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days ago Convert percentage to fraction, i.e, 80% become 0.8 That’s not a fraction. ⅘ is a fraction.
minus-squaremexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-210 days agoYou know we say “a fraction of something” with a number(usually between 1 and zero) often denoted by letter epsilon. 4/5 equals 0.8 so there is nothing wrong in calling that a fraction too Edit: Its called Decimal Fractions
minus-squareNakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoThis is just annoying pedantry you know what they meant.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoIn a thread about being clear in mathematics…
Convert percentage to fraction, i.e, 80% become 0.8 Then multiply with initial value
If it says 80% more use initial + (initial*80) or simply initial*1.8
Or if it says 80% less, use - in above calculation or multiply by 0.2
I find percentages more neat when used as fractional number Edited to escape the multiplication symbol
It’s really not even converting, as percent is literally “1/100” (per-cent = per 100). It’s purely convenient shorthand.
Yeah, the math straight up works in the fractional form
I said that to a friend of mine how to get percentage by creating fraction. They were flabbergasted at the sorcery.
The friend is a Doctrate of biological sciences and a professor. Where as I am just an engineer.
That’s not a fraction.
⅘ is a fraction.
You know we say “a fraction of something” with a number(usually between 1 and zero) often denoted by letter epsilon. 4/5 equals 0.8 so there is nothing wrong in calling that a fraction too
Edit: Its called Decimal Fractions
This is just annoying pedantry you know what they meant.
In a thread about being clear in mathematics…