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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 78 points 2 years ago

So... how do you reduce something like people crossing a border beyond one hundred percent ?

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 121 points 2 years ago

People trying to get out of the country, I guess

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I thought of this one but a deportation or just leaving aren't illegal crossings.... So it wouldn't work!

And trying to get out of the country crossing illegally is still an illegal crossing, so, it doesn't make sense

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 57 points 2 years ago

They're crossing on the opposite direction now

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

And bringing additional people with them!

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

I also considered this one, illegally crossing in the opposite direction is still illegally crossing, so, it doesn't explain the math

[-] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

For some reason, people will sometimes flip the fraction when calculating decreasing percentages, so this roughly means that the old number of crossings is beyond one hundred percent greater than the current number of border crossings. It's really dumb

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Ohhhhhh omg now this makes sense. Thank you!

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