Definitely. There was a story a few years ago about the South African postal system delivering 99% of all letters over a period of time. Turns out when you aggr

Definitely. There was a story a few years ago about the South African postal system delivering 99% of all letters over a period of time. Turns out when you aggregate that across how many they sent they only lost a couple of hundreds of thousands of letters. Percentage is a convenient con used in some contexts.