Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things.
cravl@slrpnk.net 1 day ago125% 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. 😅👏
iii@mander.xyz 23 hours ago
In my native language % means “per cent”, meaning per hundred.
So it reads as 125 per 100 times 40000.
bent@feddit.dk 23 hours 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