Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things.
bran_buckler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How would that work? Like these ten apples are equal to 2 bags of oranges?
Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things.
bran_buckler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How would that work? Like these ten apples are equal to 2 bags of oranges?
iii@mander.xyz 1 month 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.
cravl@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
…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. 😅👏
iii@mander.xyz 1 month ago
In my native language % means “per cent”, meaning per hundred.
So it reads as 125 per 100 times 40000.
bent@feddit.dk 1 month 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