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You're welcome! Glad I could give you an a-ha moment.

Having an intuitive feel for tricks like using the definition of operators or symbols to make your life (well, calculations at least) easier usually means that you either have to just be "naturally" talented at math which is really rare, or you've just had to grind grind grind math at eg. university, work or whatever. So unless someone was taught that above trick and they actually remember it from school, they might never come to think that "hmm % just means / 100 so that can make this easier to figure out in my head".

Yeah I think this is more about how you interpreted it, because it doesn't look like others took it as being an absolute magic trick rule and neither did I.

The Panzer of the Lake didn't use the word "commutativity" (fuck that really is hard to spell), but it gave out some wisdom that applied that rule by saying that "percentages are reversible": if the reverse of a percentage would be easier to calculate, you can use it and get the same answer. If it's not easier, well, then you're screwed 😁 Oooooor depending on the situation you can use the a × b% = a × b / 100 commutativity trick:

7 × 8% = 0.56

7 × 8 / 100 = 0.56

Yes

You're really asking whether commutativity of multiplication has ever helped anyone? Because that's what this is.

And yes it has helped me eg. estimate things or whatever along the years – but of course it's not going to be some sort of magical mathematics trick where just by reversing the numbers it'll always make things easier to calculate in your head

free will is sort of like the Prime Directive in Star Trek if you want to be charitable

This is a hilarious way of putting it, and as someone who hasn't been all that steeped in christianity to be very familiar with it, that actually told me a lot 😄

All I did was say to my wife, "that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehova!"

Nice, thanks. What's your impression of it?

I did an image search and you were right, it's jehova's witnesses: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2022240

"During the great tribulation, Gog of Magog’s forces may try to assault us in our homes. But we can take comfort in knowing that Jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us"

Allrighty then.

The people inside the house look like they all have dark hair. Maybe in the original it's angels guiding and protecting righteous immigration cops while they're arresting dangerous illegal immigrants (ie flashbanging toddlers)?

edit: nope lol it's jehova's witnesses: "During the great tribulation, Gog of Magog’s forces may try to assault us in our homes. But we can take comfort in knowing that Jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us"

"Oh no, downvoting me is rape culture, better start figuring out who they are so I can clean house."

lol the hell does that even mean? You sound like you're planning on murdering people for downvoting you

Whaa, that sounds like an interesting premise at least. Whats the name of the game?

Use :x you pleb