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

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 小时前

    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?

    • bent@feddit.dk
      1·
      6 小时前

      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