It makes much more sense when converted into fractions and multiply, where you have 9/10 and 11/10 respectively. Using percentages outside of a fixed reference causes all the confusion.
I think you’re missing a zero, or have transposed the zero and decimal point. You need 16 oz for 1 lb, right? Or did you just give your customers really good deals?
It makes much more sense when converted into fractions and multiply, where you have 9/10 and 11/10 respectively. Using percentages outside of a fixed reference causes all the confusion.
optimistic to expect your average peon, including me, to turn percentages into fractions in their mind
But, but… percentages are already fractions. Per cent = “out of a hundred”.
The % symbol even looks like a fraction to remind everyone.
Now, simplifying fractions from 90/100 to 9/10—in spite of it literally being removing a zero from each side—does seem to cause some real problems.
This is the one that is not intuitive
How are you at thinking about years, decades, and centuries?
If we take it step by step:—
Looking at the same thing another way:—
Bringing in the comparison from earlier:—
Are these familiar enough to make sense as a parallel, or just further irrelevant confusion?
not a lot, usually
It’s not like I don’t get the train of thought here, it just doesn’t come intuitive
You are correct. It’s more like leaving off the Unit from a number, with that causing an incorrect conversion somewhere else.
I finally learned to convert fractions and imperial vs metric by selling drugs and working retail lol.
For example I can tell you that one OZ =
0.6250.0625* LB off the dome but don’t ask me to do calculus.I think you’re missing a zero, or have transposed the zero and decimal point. You need 16 oz for 1 lb, right? Or did you just give your customers really good deals?
lol yeah meant to be .06 my bad. Of course that kind of oversight you would quickly realize while weighing stuff out
Oh, I never learned Oz to lb. Ounce just was some weird thing like 28 grams