…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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    14 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