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[sbhall]

Are you serious? So if you start with 2 dollars today, and tommorrow I ask how much money do you have today? And you respond 2. Are you going to tell me that you just went up 100% in your money? No, you made no change at all, and so going from 2 one year to 2 the next year is NOT 100%. Doubling is 200%? Please go back to school.

Maybe I should have wrote increase after 100%. Didn't think it was necessary

Uh, yes, doubling is 200%. If we have 2, and it becomes 4, 4 is 200% of 2 because it is twice 2. 2, expressed as a percentage in this example, is 100%. So if you double the value, you double the vale as expressed as a percentage to give 200% of last year's total. You can then subtract the starting value, which gives you the percentage increase (100%). Saying something is X% of a previous value and hat the previous value changed by Y% to reach the new value are very different things.

I cant believe how complicated this got.

200% of 2 is 4
2 is 100% of 2
BUT
2 to 4 is an increase of 100%


"you could also say that overtaking was 200% that of last year. so it has worked."

Technically this statement is right but it is misleading. It is just a % value it has no direct correlation of comparision.

There is a 100% increase in overtaking in that race since last year. Now if it was 6 instead of 4 then it would have been 200% increase, which i think is the bit that is confussing, % increase compared to % value of any givin number.

[darwin dali]

Guys, it's really not rocket science - just think it through and it's easy.

[Rivelution]

Are you serious? So if you start with 2 dollars today, and tommorrow I ask how much money do you have today? And you respond 2. Are you going to tell me that you just went up 100% in your money? No, you made no change at all, and so going from 2 one year to 2 the next year is NOT 100%. Doubling is 200%? Please go back to school.

Maybe I should have wrote increase after 100%. Didn't think it was necessary

Uh, yes, doubling is 200%. If we have 2, and it becomes 4, 4 is 200% of 2 because it is twice 2. 2, expressed as a percentage in this example, is 100%. So if you double the value, you double the vale as expressed as a percentage to give 200% of last year's total. You can then subtract the starting value, which gives you the percentage increase (100%). Saying something is X% of a previous value and hat the previous value changed by Y% to reach the new value are very different things.

I cant believe how complicated this got.

200% of 2 is 4
2 is 100% of 2
BUT
2 to 4 is an increase of 100%


"you could also say that overtaking was 200% that of last year. so it has worked."

Technically this statement is right but it is misleading. It is just a % value it has no direct correlation of comparision.

There is a 100% increase in overtaking in that race since last year. Now if it was 6 instead of 4 then it would have been 200% increase, which i think is the bit that is confussing, % increase compared to % value of any givin number.

Damn thats some hardcore math!!! The only math I know is subtraction, and thats because I have to give 50 bucks to this girl everytime after we have sexual intercourse. Geeze, I just dont understand women these days...

[dogheadf1]

Are you serious? So if you start with 2 dollars today, and tommorrow I ask how much money do you have today? And you respond 2. Are you going to tell me that you just went up 100% in your money? No, you made no change at all, and so going from 2 one year to 2 the next year is NOT 100%. Doubling is 200%? Please go back to school.

Maybe I should have wrote increase after 100%. Didn't think it was necessary

Uh, yes, doubling is 200%. If we have 2, and it becomes 4, 4 is 200% of 2 because it is twice 2. 2, expressed as a percentage in this example, is 100%. So if you double the value, you double the vale as expressed as a percentage to give 200% of last year's total. You can then subtract the starting value, which gives you the percentage increase (100%). Saying something is X% of a previous value and hat the previous value changed by Y% to reach the new value are very different things.

I cant believe how complicated this got.

200% of 2 is 4
2 is 100% of 2
BUT
2 to 4 is an increase of 100%


"you could also say that overtaking was 200% that of last year. so it has worked."

Technically this statement is right but it is misleading. It is just a % value it has no direct correlation of comparision.

There is a 100% increase in overtaking in that race since last year. Now if it was 6 instead of 4 then it would have been 200% increase, which i think is the bit that is confussing, % increase compared to % value of any givin number.

Damn thats some hardcore math!!! The only math I know is subtraction, and thats because I have to give 50 bucks to this girl everytime after we have sexual intercourse. Geeze, I just dont understand women these days...

If thats your only facing with maths?
and GET OVER IT!!

[headless]

Dear oh dear.
200% of 2 is not 4 it is 200.
You are all stupid.

[darwin dali]

Dear oh dear.
200% of 2 is not 4 it is 200.
You are all stupid.

Headless people have no say in this matter!

[scotty]

Wow, who thought maths taught to pre-teen kids would be the source of such contention? Hopefully we can move on now that the technicalities have been explained...

[headless]

Dear oh dear.
200% of 2 is not 4 it is 200.
You are all stupid.

Headless people have no say in this matter!

But almost as correct as some people with heads!

Wow, who thought maths taught to pre-teen kids would be the source of such contention? Hopefully we can move on now that the technicalities have been explained...

I know. Thing is it is only one person that is disturbed and causing the outrage.