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Fascinating little life hack, for doing percentages:— Ben Stephens (@stephens_ben) March 3, 2019
x% of y = y% of x
So, for example, if you needed to work out 4% of 75 in your head, just flip it and and do 75% of 4, which is easier.
The tweet attracted 11,600 likes and 4,000 retweets.
After claiming to spend years on Twitter "banging on about Trump and Brexit" - Mr Stephens seemed to find the huge response to his trick quite amusing.
He said: "I pop out one tweet about maths (a subject about which I have never tweeted before) and it sets the internet on fire."
That's easy enough to explain. His tweets about Trump and Brexit are arrogant stupid shit and this is actually helpful to people.
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Algebra. Basically a multiplication thing.
So a bunch of adults that spend their time on social media learned 6th grade algebra. I'm starting to understand why #learntocode is perhaps beyond their grasp.
This is considered a "hack"? Really?
Certainly the people writing that drivel should be considered hacks.
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