• RiceMunkEnglish
    8·
    10 hours ago

    The annoying part is that there is no well-known notation for showing percentage points, so people use % for both percentages and percentage points.

    • Szyler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I like how some games use “increases by +10%” as percentage points and “increases by 10%” as percentage.

      Or how oath of exile does it, with “(base + base * increases by y%) * z% more”

      So with a base of 5%, chance increased by 20%, and chance increased by 30%, with a 40% more chance, you’d get:

      (5% + 5% x (20% + 30%)) x (1+40%) = 7.5% x 1.4 = 10.5%

    • ziggurat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 hours ago

      In deep rock galactic survival, the color of the number is different for percentage and percentage points