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Why do people use percent for such big factors? To make the headline more impressive?
by cryptos 3y ago
Why do people use percent for such big factors? To make the headline more impressive?
- antoniojtorres 3y agoIs it not impressive without the percentage? How about 63 times?
- warvariuc 3y agoShouldn't it be 64 times? x + x * 6300% == 64 * x
- antoniojtorres 3y agothat’s even more impressive
- hnbad 3y agoFeels like the opposite to me. "6,300%" looks weird as we're expecting to see percentages used for numbers much smaller than that. "63 times more" would prompt a visceral reaction. "6,300%" at first looks like a typo.