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    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 13 11:15:53 2023
    One of the comments in the discussion at https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2734:_Electron_Color
    says "you cannot be more than 100% on anything :-D"

    Depends on what it's a percent of.

    There's baker's percent, where flour is one hundred percent and each
    other ingredient is specified as a percent of the flour -- if you want
    to make a batter, you might use 200% water.

    The website I read that on has been offline at least ten years, so I
    probably have that wrong. An undoubted example is the ever-unpopular
    "This year's tax rate is 150% of last year's tax rate."

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From John W Kennedy@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Mon Feb 13 18:46:05 2023
    On 2/13/23 11:15 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
    One of the comments in the discussion at https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2734:_Electron_Color
    says "you cannot be more than 100% on anything :-D"

    Depends on what it's a percent of.

    There's baker's percent, where flour is one hundred percent and each
    other ingredient is specified as a percent of the flour -- if you want
    to make a batter, you might use 200% water.

    The website I read that on has been offline at least ten years, so I
    probably have that wrong. An undoubted example is the ever-unpopular
    "This year's tax rate is 150% of last year's tax rate."

    King Arthur Flour’s baking website says the same.

    --
    John W. Kennedy
    Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
    King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to John W Kennedy on Mon Feb 13 18:50:27 2023
    On 2/13/2023 6:46 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
    On 2/13/23 11:15 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
    One of the comments in the discussion at
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2734:_Electron_Color
    says "you cannot be more than 100% on anything :-D"

    Depends on what it's a percent of.

    There's baker's percent, where flour is one hundred percent and
    each other ingredient is specified as a percent of the flour -- if
    you want to make a batter, you might use 200% water.

    The website I read that on has been offline at least ten years, so
    I probably have that wrong. An undoubted example is the
    ever-unpopular "This year's tax rate is 150% of last year's tax
    rate."

    King Arthur Flour’s baking website says the same.

    Has no one told the king he is no longer empowered to raise the tax rate???

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    The irrationality of a thing is no argument
    against its existence, rather a condition of it.
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

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