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minus-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·25 days agoIm 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.
minus-squarefallingcats@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days ago Maths always tries to have agreed-upon unambiguous definitions of things, precisely to avoid confusion. Laughs in ambiguous notation
minus-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoI thought of an example or two and corrected my comment to ‘tries to’ as I was typing haha
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.
Laughs in ambiguous notation
I thought of an example or two and corrected my comment to ‘tries to’ as I was typing haha