…we (me and my family members) think in terms of fractions when dealing with large numbers and differences when the numbers are small.

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    21 hours ago

    Guessing they mean;

    A 5 EUR coffee is 1 EUR more than a 4 EUR coffee.

    A 50000 EUR car is 5/4th or 125% times a 40000 EUR car.

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      12 hours ago

      125% times

      …is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏

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        In my native language % means “per cent”, meaning per hundred.

        So it reads as 125 per 100 times 40000.

        Is that not the case in English?

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          I’ve never seen anyone write it like that in English. It is understandable when you explain it, but it would normally be written simply as 1.25