Things you have recently learnt
chris_bass
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Didn't want to call this seemingly trivial things you have recently learnt but that is kind of what i am pitching this as!
I recently learnt when to use less or fewer when talking about percentages - it depends on the thing you are taking a percentage of, if that is countable then it is fewer otherwise it is less!
for example:
there were 10% fewer children according to Mr Johnson
There was 10% less water in the bucket
I recently learnt when to use less or fewer when talking about percentages - it depends on the thing you are taking a percentage of, if that is countable then it is fewer otherwise it is less!
for example:
there were 10% fewer children according to Mr Johnson
There was 10% less water in the bucket
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I know, mad isn't it?
I will no longer internally object to the price now, as it must be fairly labor intensive.
nuts you could say
At least Robert88 is trying to educate himself about what tax was like in the last century.
I would agree with this - the amount of people I have spoken to who seem to be relatively well educated otherwise who are adamant that if they get a small pay rise that puts them into the next tax bracket their net pay will actually be lower is quite amazing!
I am researching a well-known company that rose and fell last century and how it met its end. It's interesting because the main character was a chartered accountant and also a vocal right wing politician very much like we have today. Its history is almost non-existent on t'internet as if it had been wiped. In its last days shareholders rose in revolt because of the way in which its assets had been grossly undervalued by its accountants and only revealed by chance. By that time the main character was long dead and its youngest director had met his end in mysterious circumstances. None of this can be found with a search engine.
On its collapse lots of manufacturing jobs were lost in two towns and you'd think the internet history of those towns would record something but there is nothing at all almost as if they had been hosting the Mafia. Indeed in the company's heyday it practically ran the town where its HQ was. When it was wound up (it was sold to a foreign buyer) there was a lot money from asset sales but it is very hard to discover what happened to it but it was certainly not reinvested in the places the company had once operated. Capital knows no borders since exchange controls were abolished.
I was playing around with their cloud based OCR thing and came across the face detection part. I guess that cameras that take the picture when you smile use a similar principle.
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is this always the case in Italian? so would the footballer Roberto Baggio be pronounced Roberto Bajjo - If so I have been saying his name wrong my whole life - not that I have said it that often in fairness!
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Does that mean i'd be Ckris? It looks pretty similar i suppose
No it isn't.
30% of 50 is the same as 50% of 30
I have GCSE maths, A level maths and a professional accounting qualification and had never been taught this.
It's just simple multiplication, which is commutative - 30 x 0.01 x 50 = 50 x 0.01 x 30.
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I get how it works.
Just one of those things that come up when your own children are being taught maths and in particular strategies in tackling 11 plus questions.
And they say exams have not been dumbed down. :?
nope according to the internet, 53kg is the average https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_cod , the largest ever found was 96kg and 6ft, thats bigger than me :shock:
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