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11072166 No.11072166 [Reply] [Original]

>if you lose 10% than gain 10%, you're down
>if you gain 10% then lose 10%, you're STILL down

what the fuck math

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>> No.11072188

I don't know if I'm meant to be missing some obvious thing here, but this has fucked with my mind OP.
I aced high school math btw. Consumed so much linear algebra that I had undigested numbers on my toilet paper

>> No.11072202

>>11072188
U holding alt coins?
Valued in eth and NYC, that are also changing in usd value?
Hmm?

>> No.11072204

>>11072166
and?
take number n, 0.1n is always the same
take number m = 0.9n, 0.1m is always the same plus or minus
n!=m duh...

>> No.11072207
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high school dropout here. was in literal retard math.

kys if you struggle to grasp this.

you have $100
you lose 10%
you now have $90
you gain 10%
you now have $99

or

you have $100
you gain 10%
you now have $110
you lose 10%
you now have 99

>> No.11072222

>>11072166
lel i was the one who posted this in the thread about percentages that was made like 3 weeks ago as a troll. weird to see that someone copy pasta'd it kek

>> No.11072233

win 10% and 10%, you have 21%
loose 10% and 10%, you lost 19%

Math suddenly on your side.
The amount of brainlets on this board....

>> No.11072236

/sci/ here lmaoing @ ur lives

>> No.11072239

Thats why you trade leveraged. You can stack the odds in your favor on a reversal. Turn a 5% increase into a 50-100% one.

>> No.11072259

>>11072233
Very astute

>> No.11072282

>>11072188
>I aced high school math btw
You must be American. Compound interest are pretty basic math.

>> No.11072284

win 100%, you doubled your money
lose 100%, you lost everything

>> No.11072321

>>11072282
number properties are taught in elementary school, but questions can be created that still offer insight for adults

>> No.11072369

>>11072233
Checked

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>>11072284
what the fuck?

>> No.11072382

>>11072233
Doesn’t this mathematically imply buying and holding for compound will always win? Even downside risk is reduced

>> No.11072390

>>11072166
>not understanding that multiplication is commutative
Are you the reason bitcoin got pumped to 20k?

>> No.11072391

>>11072284
>win 100%
>not win all your money
wtf

>> No.11072412

>>11072207
Nailed it

>> No.11072420

>>11072188
1.1*0.9 = 0.9*1.1 < 1

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>>11072370
ok explain this.

i have $100 (100% of my money)

i win double it, so i have 200% 2x. $200 bucks.

but if i lose i lose 100x of my money?? all $100 gone. i have to bet negative 100x to win only +2x?

>> No.11072450

>>11072432
how do you lose 100x of something you only have 1x?

>> No.11072478

>>11072450
debt

>> No.11072489

>>11072450
i have 100% so its 100x

>> No.11072522
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11072522

Math is a social construct and should be illegal.

>> No.11072546

>>11072166
compounding works both ways, as for buffet as for /biz/raeli

>> No.11072580

>>11072382
Yeah. That's what Buffett does. In the long term you can lose everything or you can go to the stratosphere. If your strategy consists in not losing money and you're good at it... Well, that's that.

The downside is that it takes a lot of time to make it.

>> No.11072595

>>11072166
>being this much of a noob

1.1 * 0.9 = 0.99

>> No.11072597

>>11072207
Hey man same boat!

Scool dint teech me much eyem batter off awn my ohm.