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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

hopeful-weirdo just needs to be told to consider what increasing by 500% means and it'll click.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee -4 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's ambiguous and the 90% actually makes more sense. If you increase something by 5m you are taking the original value and adding 5m to it. For multiplication you should probably avoid the word increase and say scaled by instead. 10% scaled by 180% is 18%.

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