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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:39PM (#161901)
    And by replying to myself anonymously, I can guarantee that anyone who voted 0% or 100% is wrong. :)
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:15PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:15PM (#163509) Journal

    Given the list of options, it's obvious that the values are to be rounded to a full multiple of 25%. So "0%" actually means "less than 12.5%" and "100%" means "more than 87.5%".

    If the options were taken at exact value, it's practically guaranteed that none of the options fits. To start with, the 50% option being exactly true requires that the number of posts is even, therefore every second post it is guaranteed not to hold, and the 25% and 75% options can only hold if the number of posts is a multiple of four, that is, only once in four posts it is possible that one of them holds exactly.

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