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Dec 22, 2021 9:26:43 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 9:26:43 GMT
I mean this:
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Dec 22, 2021 9:42:08 GMT
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Post by WDB on Dec 22, 2021 9:42:08 GMT
OK. So 2.8x as high. Not 2.8x higher, which would be 3.8x as high. And it’s more like 2.9x because a third is not the 30% he’s used, and because 10 infecting 400 gives 410 infected people. But the point is valid even if his maths is wrong.
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Dec 22, 2021 9:44:35 GMT
Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2021 9:44:35 GMT
Good. I had no idea there was a difference between "as high" and "higher". I did 'O' Level maths in the 4th Form and got a B, then Additional Maths in the 5th form and got a U. It was during the 5th Form that I realised mathematics wasn't my subject. I still throughly resent having to do any.
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Dec 22, 2021 10:00:59 GMT
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Post by dixinormus on Dec 22, 2021 10:00:59 GMT
Covid chat in a football thread?! We’re totally muddled now..!
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Dec 22, 2021 10:03:07 GMT
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Post by WDB on Dec 22, 2021 10:03:07 GMT
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Looking at the extremes is often a bad idea but it’s useful in maths. What does ‘no times as high’ mean? How about ‘no times higher’? OK, not things we’d actually say, but you can see they have different meanings.
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