• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    So… how do you reduce something like people crossing a border beyond one hundred percent ?

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      2 months ago

      For some reason, people will sometimes flip the fraction when calculating decreasing percentages, so this roughly means that the old number of crossings is beyond one hundred percent greater than the current number of border crossings. It’s really dumb

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        2 months ago

        I also considered this one, illegally crossing in the opposite direction is still illegally crossing, so, it doesn’t explain the math