I just realized I may have misread things?
Suppose a ship was about to take damage such that our records would log it as “80%”.
If we “halve” that damage, I think our records would read “40%”.
If we “reduce by 10%” that damage, would our records read “70%” or would they read “72%”?
72%
(Good question, by the way; I added a note to the main post to clarify this.)
I thought it was unambiguously 72% except for the weirdness of “2%, ten times, is 20% rather than ~18%”.
I just realized I may have misread things?
Suppose a ship was about to take damage such that our records would log it as “80%”.
If we “halve” that damage, I think our records would read “40%”.
If we “reduce by 10%” that damage, would our records read “70%” or would they read “72%”?
72%
(Good question, by the way; I added a note to the main post to clarify this.)
I thought it was unambiguously 72% except for the weirdness of “2%, ten times, is 20% rather than ~18%”.