Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things.

bran_buckler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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% tumes a 40000 EUR car.

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  • cravl@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

      So it reads as 125 per 100 times 40000.

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      • bent@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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

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