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0 pointsSchiendelman11d ago0 comments

You're adding absolute dollars rather than using percentages - that usually isn't how that works.

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JumpCrisscross10d ago· 2 in thread

> rather than using percentages

Not really.

Fractions (7/2), ratios (3.5x) and percentages (+250%) are fundamentally mathematically identical.

There are a lot of problems with this back-of-the-envelope estimate, but I’m not sure the one I understand you presenting is one of them.

Any of those three would be fine. They did not use any of them. They simply used absolute dollars.

eiiee11d ago

Hahaha what a bozo.

Of course you don’t use percentages when the magnitude of the numbers are so high.

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