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by JumpCrisscross 46 days ago
> rather than using percentages

Not really.

Fractions (7/2), ratios (3.5x) and percentages (+250%) are fundamentally mathematically identical.

There are a lot of problems with this back-of-the-envelope estimate, but I’m not sure the one I understand you presenting is one of them.

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Any of those three would be fine. They did not use any of them. They simply used absolute dollars.