I was tying to enjoy breakfast yesterday at a local diner, but in the corner was Mr Knowitall pontificating on one subject after another. At one point he makes the brilliant statement “saying it’s 70% doesn’t tell you anything, it could just be 3 people out of a group of 5”.
Is it too much to ask you to talk loudly enough that only the people at your table have to listen to your inanity?
What a maroon. To get 70% it’s three and a half people out of five. Even half people know this.
Technically, he could have a point. If you have a sample group of five, three “hits” equals a range of 50-70% for the group. So if you were looking for a 70% result, you could argue that 3/5 fulfilled the requirement.
It’s still better than the medical supply salesmen at the table next to ours in a fancy restaurant, who were loudly discussing the finer points of cleaning endoscopy equipment.
Someone was grossing YOU out? Ai-yi-yi!
I’m pretty sure 3/5! = 2.5%
Operator precedence, motherfucker.
No, no, Darth’s right. 3 / 5! = 0.025. ! has higher precedence than /.
And you win today’s Award For Phrase Least Likely To Become A Meme.
Smack talk at the math club meeting. Takes me back to high school.
I’m pretty sure this entire pitting has been rendered moot by the Fourteenth Amendment, Section Two.
It could have been colonoscopy equipment, mate. Count yourself lucky.
The guy’s right. 3 out of 5 people think 3/5 = 70%
Would Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, and Ashton Kucher fit the bill?
And googol% of people make up statistics on the spot.
No. Darth Panda’s underlying error is one in his lexical scanning, rather than a syntax error, where operator precedence is typically defined.
That sounded vaguely like an insult 
Poor Horatio.
It’s like the peabrains who will insist that if an item is 30% off and they have a 20% coupon “THAT MEANS IT’S 50% OFF WHY ARE YOU RINGING IT UP WRONG YOU MORON!!!”
10 years in retail was 20 years too long.