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cncool · 2012-05-11 01:17:01

"Of course, 2/3 of 10k is still > 0."

Depends on the language.

0xffff2 | karma 5015 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2017-08-09 17:12:33+00:00

>10.000%

To clarify, you mean 10000%, right? My American brain really wants to parse that as a (very precise) 10% improvement.

vaksel | karma 27916 | avg karma 5.03 · | 2008-09-05 19:08:29+00:00

usually the percentages you see are different: "would you rather have 20% of 10 million or 100% of 0"

davidcbc | karma 2337 | avg karma 3.62 · | 2023-03-11 10:31:17

You're familiar with what >= means, right?

The OP was saying it was at least 30%

thunky | karma 772 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2023-04-14 07:45:40

> 41.2% is not the majority…

Yes it is if all other numbers are smaller.

Diederich | karma 5989 | avg karma 3.48 · | 2020-12-02 16:53:44+00:00

> small percentage

If I carried the decimal correctly, 5 thousand out of 58 million is less than 1% of 1%.

Existenceblinks | karma 1097 | avg karma 0.95 · | 2019-07-06 22:11:10

> vast majority of us

Like 1% or 10%?

frozenport | karma 2997 | avg karma 1.05 · | 2015-02-01 04:44:28+00:00

This isn't my field, but I'm not sure if they should check for 3% or 0.3%.

infinityio | karma 483 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2022-07-10 05:07:27

> Just 1% of 1% of this

His maths is correct, just an easy-to-misread phrase

adamjb | karma 900 | avg karma 4.27 · | 2021-06-15 00:59:45+00:00

No, it's 25%. It doesn't matter what the first word is as long as it's the same as the second.

adtac | karma 4292 | avg karma 4.8 · | 2018-08-22 13:49:36+00:00

>a huge percentage

A hard number would say more than that phrase :)

bigiain | karma 20773 | avg karma 3.34 · | 2017-11-23 03:41:31+00:00

The snide version would be "100% of 433,000". (Which is what I initially parsed it as, and nodded in agreement...)

jabradoodle | karma 585 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2023-09-17 07:02:00

> First of all, such things are of the top 0.1%, not the 10%.

Exactly, the 0.1% are part of the 10%

wyldfire | karma 20828 | avg karma 4.03 · | 2017-07-12 14:23:16+00:00

> As you can see, the calculations are absolutely fair and transparent.

...if you can grant them the premise that the 3.3% sampled represents the project as a whole so that the ratio will project out to 27k overall.

davrosthedalek | karma 2634 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2020-10-22 21:11:10+00:00

I might be parsing the original text wrong, but 1,000 out of 100,000 is 1%. Not 0.1% ?!?

lhorie | karma 9875 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2019-06-08 02:03:29+00:00

> It’s around 50%

You sound sure. Where did you get this number?

exmadscientist | karma 3757 | avg karma 4.77 · | 2020-03-19 22:44:28

> 0.05% is just ridiculous.

It is absolutely not ridiculous as a lower bound!

extesy | karma 1646 | avg karma 7.76 · | 2016-01-14 15:53:49+00:00

full quote: "one two-hundredth of a percent", which is indeed 0.005%.

ph0rque | karma 23296 | avg karma 5.51 · | 2008-05-17 23:59:45+00:00

> 99,843% ...

is that out of %100,000?

Tloewald | karma 6746 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2014-03-10 01:15:09+00:00

"10% done" -> 0.1% done.