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And on a pedantic note: 39/43 rounds to 91% rather than 90%

Maybe they were going for one sigfig. This comment doesn't really add anything, so next time you find yourself typing "And on a pedantic note" press delete 22 times.

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And to be really pedantic — only in the service of further demonstrating that the original pedantry was silly, I promise! — when the real percentage is 90.6something, it is also true that "90%" (and "80%", and "22%", etc.) "have already accepted", but it is not yet true that "91%" have.

And on a pedantic note, presumably your cursor would be at the end of the text you find yourself typing, and thus require backspace not delete.

On some systems delete is backspace when you're at the end of a line.

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