What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative?

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Concurrent = multiple things at the same time

  Cumulative = amount of stuff added up over time

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• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  With regards to prison sentences?

  Sentences served concurrently are served at the same time. If someone was found guilty of 3 different crimes, and was sentenced to 1, 3 and 5 years in prison for them, and they were to be served concurrently, they’d be in prison for a total of 5 years.

  Cumulative (or consecutive, depending on where you’re from) sentences are served one after another, so in the above example, they’d be in prison for a total of 9 years.

  It’s also possible for (for example) the 1 and 3 year sentences to be served cumulatively, and the 5 year to be served concurrently (in which case the total would be 8 years).

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  • x4740N@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not in regards to prison sentences, just in general

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It is the same thing but with less prison time.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s also possible for (for example) the 1 and 3 year sentences to be served cumulatively, and the 5 year to be served concurrently (in which case the total would be 8 years).

    Wouldn’t that still be 9 years? 1 and 3 are cumulative, giving a 4 year sentence, and the 5 years is concurrent with that. 4 & 5 concurrent makes 5.

    To get 8, wouldn’t you want the 3 and 5 served consecutively with the 1 year being concurrent?

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yep, you’re right. Confused myself with all the cumulative vs consecutive vs concurrent jabber.

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• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Concurrent: at the same time - if you eat two cookies at the same time you’re eating them concurrently. Cumulative: accumulating/growing over time - If you eat a cookie now and eat a cookie later you’ve cumulatively eaten 2 cookies. Bonus points: wouldn’t it have been a lot easier to google ‘define:<word>’ than to make a post here to get other people to answer for you? You’d get the answer a lot quicker the other way, too.

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• JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cumulative: 123456

  Concurrent: 1 2 3 4 5 6

  (Imagine the concurrent numbers all overlapped with each other for greater effect.)

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  • ValiantDust@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you want to start a new line, you can either type the spaces at the end of the line or a backslash. I think it should work on all clients, but I’m not sure.

    1\
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    results in

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    • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks for the tip!

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