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First off, I just want to clarify one thing. Throughout my posting career people have asked me if my user name is "Gross, Dude" or just referring to a dude who is gross. It's neither. It's because I've always been a huge advocate for using pergross instead of percent. The reason that pergross is better is that it has more prime factors. 100 only has four: 2,2,5,5. This means that the factors that can easily divide it are 2,4,10,20,25,50,100. And, these correspond to some common, nice looking percentages. 50%,25%,10%,5%,4%,2%,1%. I mean, that's a nice slew of percentages, but think about 33.33333%. That's awful, yuck, rounding. But thing about 144. It has way more prime factors. 2,2,2,2,3,3. Giving it following factors: 2,3,4,6,8,9,12,16,18,24,36,48,72,144! Wow that's a ton! We do lose out on our factors of 5, so bye bye to 20,10 and 4 percent. But, we have three as a factor! That means no infinitely repeating numbers when we do 1/6 or 1/3. What's even better is that we have two 3s! That means even 9 is fine by us! And even though we did lose 5, 5 in base ten doesn't lead to infinite repetition, so it's a small loss. Below is a percent to pergross chart to help you get started using this new and better system. I am excited to get the ball rolling on this amazing achievement in math, and you should all be honored that I shared it with BYOB first. (æ is the pergross sign) 100% -> 144æ 50% -> 72æ 33.333% -> 48æ 25% -> 36æ 20% -> 28.8æ 16.667% -> 24æ 12.5% -> 18æ 11.111% -> 16æ 10% -> 14.4æ 8.5% -> 12æ 6.25% -> 9æ 5.556% -> 8æ 5% -> 7.2æ 4.167% -> 6æ 2.778% -> 4æ 2.083% -> 3æ 2% -> 2.88æ 1.389% -> 2æ 1% -> 1.44æ |
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You really gave this thread 160æ, op |
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Feb 24, 2016 15:51
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*clears throat* Pergross, Dude. |
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Feb 24, 2016 16:19
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pergross is an anagram of progress 
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Feb 24, 2016 16:24
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google THIS posted:pergross is an anagram of progress Wow, great catch. I haven't sent my promotional flyers to the printers yet, so I'm adding this bit of information ASAP |
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Feb 24, 2016 16:28
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I don't understand but I am glad the numbers make you happy
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Feb 24, 2016 17:09
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DeepQantas posted:You really gave this thread 160æ, op |
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Feb 24, 2016 17:10
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"pergross is Bæ" --someone young |
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Feb 24, 2016 17:37
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why not have 720 be there instead of 144 so we can have nice multiples of 5 as well as 2s and 3s? either way im 144æ behind this |
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Feb 24, 2016 17:51
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that's all well and good but it's really hard writing the 'a' and 'e' close enough together ae hrrrnnnnngh ae i can't even loving type it a e NO
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Feb 24, 2016 18:50
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alt+0230 on the numpad on a windows machine 
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please shut the hell up, i've got this ok well that's too far in the other directione: here we go: ǽ I even got a little fancy with it, added a bit of that south-of-the-border flavor FutonForensic fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Feb 24, 2016
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Feb 24, 2016 19:15
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i know your game. you just have 6 fingers on each hand so you count in a base 12 system. well it won't work on me bub!! 5 fingers forever! |
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Feb 24, 2016 19:15
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FutonForensic posted:that's all well and good but it's really hard writing the 'a' and 'e' close enough together
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Feb 24, 2016 19:26
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I am 61 %æ sold on this |
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Feb 24, 2016 19:27
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i don't get it :c
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Feb 24, 2016 19:39
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FutonForensic posted:that's all well and good but it's really hard writing the 'a' and 'e' close enough together lol |
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