Re: DS2: Design questions of my own.

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From: "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com
>
> The difference here is the usage of %.
>
> The point I was making was the % chance of kill was increased by 25,
thus
25% increase.
>
> You are using % as a factorial increase - 50% increase over the 50%
baseline.

To my knowledge, a % (percent) increase or decrease always is a
factorial
increase and refers to the start value, whatever that is.

Start with 50 cents . Change to 75 cents is an increase of 50 % (half
again
as large as the original value)
Say, the 50 cents is the 10% postage on a mail order of 5 Dollars. The
change to 75 cents increases this from 10% to 15%, but it still is half
again as large as the original (a 50% percent increase).
As this can be very confusing when the base value is expressed as a
percentage, such phrasing should best be avoided. If it is neccessary,
what
is usually done to express it precusely is to speak about "percentage
points" when the numbers refer to the original percentage values. In our
example, the change from 10% to 15% is a change of 5 % points.

Greetings
Karl Heinz