Yeah we just learned “by” was a standard term from multiplication. So increased by 80% was just 1.8 times whatever you started with. “Divide by” meaning multiply inversely
Language translating to artithmatic.
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niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The different ways in which numbers slide up, down, sideways, diagonally.
Is the example in the post part of the fifth type of arithmetic?
- Addition +
- Subtraction -
- Multiplication x
- Division /
- Modulo %
The first time I learned about modulo as its’ own branch of arithmetic was long out of school already, I had only hazily heard of it, on a PBS Nova documentary in the 1990s about Fermat’s famous theorem and when it was proven after centuries of failed tries.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No it’s not modulo, it’s how to talk about increasing a value by a percentage of the value.