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Originally Posted by Cfoye
appreciate the reply but i don't understand why we are adding 1 in there or whatever that formula is. I want to know it so i can use it often so i'd love it if you could explain it a bit more in a way a noobie can understand
let's say you have 100 potatoes and someone has 20% more. how many potatoes does he have? 120 because 100*1.2=120. what you are asking is kind of inverse to this. your problem is that you have 100 potatoes and someone else has 120. how much more potatoes percentage-wise does he have?
in general the formula is smaller number * number greater than 1 = bigger number. or smaller*(1+ percentage_increase/100)=bigger.
so 100*(1+x%/100) = 120, x%=20. percentages are easy when comparing with number 100, with other numbers the logic is the same but the answer isn't that obvious.