• grue@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Most of the time, math textbooks are dealing with real numbers (continuous quantities), for which that verbiage is appropriate.

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      16 hours ago

      Are percentages not continuous quantities? In this case, they represent ratio of discrete values, but we don’t know what those are.