• DrDominate@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I think he meant to word it, if you take 5% of the initial population every year for 12 years, how much of that initial population is left, no?

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      10 months ago

      That’s how he made the calculation, but it’s not what he said, because 5% of European jews each year it’s not the same as 5% of the initial European jews. The word initial is absent and in my view that make its numbers wrong. But yeah, may be I’m being too strict and most of you understood what he meant. By I think it’s misleading because it can give you the idea that in general if you have 60% in 12 years you can calculate the percentage for each year just by dividing by 12. And that is certainly wrong.