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by jtbayly 487 days ago
I’m confused. Why would 1 + 10% obviously be 0.11?

I expected 1.1 (which is what my iOS calculator reported, when I got curious).

I do understand the question of parsing. I just struggle to understand why the first one is confidently stated to correctly result in a particular answer. It feels like a perfect example itself of a problem with unclear parsing.