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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by geon on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:16AM (#13103531)
How are 99 % or 9/10 not precise numbers?

And "very rare" was a comment on "99 %", not a quantity on its own.

HN is the one place where I expect readers to interpret numbers literally.

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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by hueving on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:57AM (#13104662)
Are 9/10 and 99% the same number to you?

Would you describe a random number generator outputting 5 when picking between 1 and 10 as "very rare"?

1/10 != 1/100 != "very rare"

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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by geon on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @04:01AM (#13113221)
They are for separate things.
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