• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    Uh, around three and a half percent or three thousand five houndred percent?

    Confused european here.

    Edit: guess 3500%

    Another China-based firm, Trina Solar, faces tariffs of 375% for the products it makes in Thailand.

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      3,521%. Don’t forget the absurd false precision to make you think this was a number that came about from Very Serious Math.

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        Their confusion comes from the fact that some countries use the comma like the USA uses the decimal point. So, to be clear, it’s 3521%.

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      Yeah the us and the uk use the full stop as a decimal point, and the comma to separate orders of value if that make sense, so you could also write the figure as 3521%.

      The figure written as 3,5% in say France would be written 3.5% in the us and the uk.