{"id":9173,"date":"2011-11-07T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/11\/07\/percentages-may-not-add-up-to-100-but-not-for-the-reason-you-suggest\/"},"modified":"2011-11-07T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T07:00:01","slug":"percentages-may-not-add-up-to-100-but-not-for-the-reason-you-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20111107-01\/?p=9173","title":{"rendered":"Percentages may not add up to 100%, but not for the reason you suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a chart which had the disclaimer, &#8220;Percentages may not add up to 100%, as they are rounded to the nearest percent.&#8221;\n The values in the table were 10.4%, 4.0%, 9.4%, 9.3%, 9.2%, 21.2%, 20.0%, and 15.8%.<\/p>\n<p> This is a use of the phrase &#8220;nearest percent&#8221; I was previously unfamiliar with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a chart which had the disclaimer, &#8220;Percentages may not add up to 100%, as they are rounded to the nearest percent.&#8221; The values in the table were 10.4%, 4.0%, 9.4%, 9.3%, 9.2%, 21.2%, 20.0%, and 15.8%. This is a use of the phrase &#8220;nearest percent&#8221; I was previously unfamiliar with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I saw a chart which had the disclaimer, &#8220;Percentages may not add up to 100%, as they are rounded to the nearest percent.&#8221; The values in the table were 10.4%, 4.0%, 9.4%, 9.3%, 9.2%, 21.2%, 20.0%, and 15.8%. This is a use of the phrase &#8220;nearest percent&#8221; I was previously unfamiliar with.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}