Formatting of the number changes the way people interpret it. Which looks larger from a quick glance 1k or 1,000? You’re 1h% correct, it’s totally needless, makes it less clear and honestly was probably done intentionally.
Okay. I don’t typically get that caught up in the formatting of a number if the meaning is clear. 1k means 1000 in basically every context, and a unit indicator doesn’t make it more confusing to me. Are you likewise baffled by something being written as “1km”?
A percentage is a dimensionless number, but percent is still a unit. Just think about how you use it. Something can increase by 5 students, or it can increase by 15%.
Regardless, is “m” standing for a concrete measure and ”%” for a proportional one really the source of since confusion and anger? What about db, or decibel? It’s a measure of the ratio of quantities on a logarithmic scale, and is regularly applied to sound, electricity and other values. Is it as confusing?
In all your examples, k is a prefix to the unit. You can have 1 km, or 1 kdB. But there’s no such thing as a kilopercent and that’s not how it was used in the title. It was the common informal shortening of 1000 to 1k. So it wasn’t 1(k%), it was (1k)%. Which is an odd combination. It’s not confusing, everyone understood what was meant, but it’s still stupid and unnecessary.
1000%
Why are people struggling with this so hard?
Because it’s a stupid, non standard way to say it. I understood it fine but I still thought it was a needless abbreviation.
Formatting of the number changes the way people interpret it. Which looks larger from a quick glance 1k or 1,000? You’re 1h% correct, it’s totally needless, makes it less clear and honestly was probably done intentionally.
K = kilo, which stands for 1000. It’s extremely standard. Saying it’s stupid is like saying $ or π or & or # or % is stupid.
1k is a common way to shorten 1,000. And 1,000% is an acceptable way to say 10x. But 1k% is definitely a stupid abbreviation that nobody uses.
Non standard. That is all.
Solve for x
Why are you not upset by it?
Because the meaning is obvious?
It’s literally the stupidest possible way to write it
Nah.
For example:
“UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000,000,000μ%”
would be even more stupid and I’m sure using something else than base-10 would yield its very own class of stupid.
Stupidity is probably boundless.
Not when M% exists
Okay. I don’t typically get that caught up in the formatting of a number if the meaning is clear. 1k means 1000 in basically every context, and a unit indicator doesn’t make it more confusing to me. Are you likewise baffled by something being written as “1km”?
I have literally never seen k used in percentages before. Km is common, as is using it if you’re writing out LARGE numerical values (10k or above).
I’m not saying it’s difficult to understand. I’m saying it looks stupid.
Alright. And you felt the need to express that you thought it looked stupid to a person saying the meaning was clear to them, so they weren’t upset?
Do you get why someone might think the meaning wasn’t clear?
If it was your first time seeing the prefix used that way, and the meaning was immediately clear despite not being your style, why do you care?
But % is not a unit.
A percentage is a dimensionless number, but percent is still a unit. Just think about how you use it. Something can increase by 5 students, or it can increase by 15%.
Regardless, is “m” standing for a concrete measure and ”%” for a proportional one really the source of since confusion and anger? What about db, or decibel? It’s a measure of the ratio of quantities on a logarithmic scale, and is regularly applied to sound, electricity and other values. Is it as confusing?
In all your examples, k is a prefix to the unit. You can have 1 km, or 1 kdB. But there’s no such thing as a kilopercent and that’s not how it was used in the title. It was the common informal shortening of 1000 to 1k. So it wasn’t 1(k%), it was (1k)%. Which is an odd combination. It’s not confusing, everyone understood what was meant, but it’s still stupid and unnecessary.
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Sure it is. If the company charged them 10 times the amount they were supposed to, that is a 1000% surcharge.