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Oh panzer of the lake, why am I still single?
Are you sure you can stand the answer?
Fuck. I had to calculate 4% of 7 a few minutes ago and didn’t know this. I say fuck because it wouldn’t have helped me anyway.
4% x 7
= 4% x 100 x 7 ÷ 100
= 4 x 7 ÷ 100
= 28 ÷ 100
= 0.28
My brain was more like “Okay it’s just seven point-fours. So what’s seven fours? 28. What’s seven point-fours? 2.8. That can’t be right. Fuck. Get a calculator.
I go for finding percentage factors.
4%? That’s just 1% * 4. 1% of 7 = 0.07 * 4 = 0.28
14%? That’s just 10% + 1% * 4 = 0.7 + 0.07 * 4 = 0.98
You tell it’s decimal, then I’m gonna Decimal.
Keeping the decimal in the right place is the trick for me when I do it in my head.
How is 17% of 83.27 easier then 83.27% of 17?
Oddly, yes.
Percentages also add together in partials. As in 10%+5%+2% = 17%
So, you start with the 10% by moving the decimal over 83.27 becomes 8.327
Then add half of that (5%) to its self and get 12.49 (rounded)
Then take the 10% number and move the decimal over once more (1%) for 0.833 and double it (from 1% to 2%) and get 1.666 and add that to your running total to get your answer of 14.16 (rounding)
And when I calculator check this I got 14.1559.
This is probably only useful when you’re finding percentages of 50 or 100.
No way! 68% of 120 is 120% of 68, so drop the 100% now i just need to figure out 20% of 68 or do i need 68% of 20 which is really just 6 tens plus 8% so divide 20 by 10, then times 6 which is 12, now we need 8% of 20 which is just 20% of 8 or whichdies
True mathematics derives from established mathematical theory, not some farcical aquatic armored vehicle!
Help help I’m being irrationalized!
Another counter-intuitive percentage fact: A 10 percent discount and a 10 percent fee can be calculated in either order but they don’t cancel out.
Example, 90% of (110% of 10) = 110% of (90% of 10). But neither of those is evaluates to 10. They evaluate to 9.9.
For any percentage X, and and base value C, (100 - X)% x ((100 + X)% x C) = (100 + X)% x ((100 - X)% x C) = (100 - (X^2/100))% x C
6% of 50
6/100 * 50/1
(6 * 50) / (100 * 1)
(50 * 6) / (100 * 1)
50/100 * 6/1
50% of 6
Works for multiplying any fraction, not just percents.
2/3 of 5 is the same as 5/3 of 2.
2/5 of 7/8 is the same as 7/5 of 2/8.
To good of advice to be a shitpost
It was recently discovered that all AI everywhere was connected to the Panzer all along. /s
In either case I would multiply 5 by 6 and move the decimal. Interesting though.
6 of 50 is 300. % just means 1/100. That’s also a good way to think of it.
I was waiting in a car in front of a math tutoring building and was doing the math programs advertised on their window (as one does, of course) and the 7% of 250 is indeed probably easiest as 250% of 7, aka 2.5x7, which is 17.5.
I did it a few other ways, though. 7% of 1000 is 70, then divide by 4 for 17.5. Well, more like, divide by 2 for 35 and again for 17.5, but yeah… mental math is fun.
👆 This guy… fucks?
Calcufucks?
Calcu-lust?
Wait, you think 0.07 * 250 is easier than 2.5 * 7?
Huh, no, I was saying the opposite. But there are easy alternatives aside from 0.07 x 250, like (0.07 x 1000) / 4.
Let’s try this on a sale item. Hmm, let’s see, the sign says 25% off $6.99. So that’s the same as, let’s say, 7% off $25. Oh, yeah, that is much easier. /s
Wait…
So 25% off $100… is 100% off $25! TrollfaceI mean if you remove the word off it works. 25% off $100 is $25 100% of 25 is 25 it’s still reversible you just let the word off confuse you
You could also make sure to carry “off” to both sides when you swap:
off of $100 is 100% of $25 off
Everyone’s talking about this math. I’m wondering about the panzer.
They said the water could reach up to 50% of its 1.7 meter height before causing problems, panzer tried calculating 1.7% of 50 meters from head, this is the result.
the % sign just means 1/100 or 0.01.
so 6% * 50 = 6 * 0.01 * 50
and since you can rearange factors:
= 6 * 50 * 0.01 = 6 * 50%
Strange Panzers lying in ponds distributing shells is no basis for a system of government…
Surely you don’t think supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses?
I thought we were an autonomous collective
As opposed to what, a farcical aquatic ceremony?
That was unexpected.
And now for something completely different
The… Larch… … The Larch.
No one expects the python imposition!
