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by mulmen 3017 days ago
Pet peeve: made up numbers. Why not just use an adverb?

Yes, I spend a lot of time annoyed.

1 comments

Yes I should have said "on the order of 99%". I think generally figures like "99%", when used in this context, imply that this is an approximate value, but I agree that it's better to explicitly state that.