These buffs are always additive not multiplicative.
So it’s:
Base-rep + 100% + 10%
instead of:
Base-rep * (1+100%) * (1+10%)
Nearly
Base-rep + (100% + 10%)
Maths, not Math
we’re not savages
I completely agree.
Considering that this is how literally any other percentage bonus works in the game, I really don’t see, how this is anything else than a troll.
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The event is double Legion and BfA rep, not double all rep gains.
The brackets are not needed as summation is order insensitive. A + B + C will always equal A + (B + C)
100+10 = 110
100% (1500 rep) + 110% (1650 rep) = 3150 rep
The math checks out
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If all 3 elements are numbers then yes, no brackets needed, but as the last 2 are % the brackets remove any ambiguity and make the formula clearer.
If you do the formula on a calculator you get an answer of 3300, which is not the formula for calculating the rep gained in this instance.
Percentages are still numbers. There is no ambiguity, at least in that sense.
100% = 1
10% = 0.1
If you are worried about the formula being misleading, change the part that actually can be misleading, aka what the percentages are supposed to represent:
Rs = sum of Reputation gained
Rb = base Reputation gain
B[n] = bonus multipliers
Rs = Rb + Rb * B1 + Rb * B2 …
Or in short:
Rs = Rb * (1+B1+B2…)
Writing it like this would also make it easy to point out the difference between additive and multiplicative modifiers by replacing the plus symbols within the brackets.
If that’s the case then go tell Microsoft that their Windows Calculator is bugged and present your reasoning as proof.
If you think anything I wrote is incorrect, feel free to point that out. If you just want to write cryptic messages that imply some kind of objection, you can do that too. But only one of those two is constructive.
Just to clarify, nothing I wrote is my opinion or personal reasoning. Its some very basic stuff anyone can look up within 2 minutes.
I didn’t say it was incorrect, I said it was ambiguous.
You formula assumes that ‘B’ and ‘C’ are pre calculated, if so then your formula works.
If, however, ‘B’ and ‘C’ are read as a % ( and not a basic number that has already been calculated using another formula) then it’s wrong.
If anything is cryptic it’s your presentation of the formula and your lack of explanation of what exactly each element represents is.
There is no such thing as ‘pre calculated’.
Percentages are numbers.
Those are facts. If you dont acknowledge them there is no point talking to you.
I also wonder what lack of explanation you mean. The definition of every placeholder is right above the formula. You just need to replace them with the actual numbers. If you can point out what about that you consider cryptic (quite ironic) I can see into that.
Its clearly more technical.
Well here’s a fact for you.
Input…
‘1500+100%+10%’ into the windows calculator and you will get the answer of 3300.
N = a number and is a fixed value.
N% is a percentage and is a variable.
10% of 1500 can be written as ‘10%’ or it can be written as 150, hence the anbiguity.
I feel there’s no point talking to someone who’s inflated ego prevents them from recognising this.
Assumption is the mother of all mess ups.
I see. The problem is that you use windows calculator as a source, not a tool.
1500+100%+10% is not 3300 but 1501.1
Windows Calculator knows what you are trying to do there and replaces the percentage with a nested calculation (1500*100/100), which it then uses to replace the 100%.
Now I also understand why you wanted to put the percentages into brackets, because you probably need to add them up before putting it into the windows calculator.
You should know that mathematically speaking this is not correct. I assumed your initial calculation (1500+100%+10%) was supposed to be a simplified explanation, not an actual mathematical formula.
It wasn’t a calculation, it was a list of buttons to press on the calculator.
It’s a method I think most people would use to calculate the answer.
In this case the numbers are fairly easy to handle and you can mentally calculate the percentages.
However if we had for example a bonus of 13.946% on a base rep of 146 and a racial rep bonus of 7.34% I’m willing to bet most people would use a calculator and then complain that Blizz had calculated the number incorrectly.
Did it ever came to your mind to note that? Youre saying I am making ambigious or cryptic explanations, yet you post a formula and expect people to know that its not a formula but a “guide” on how to to calculate it within a specific program???
Not in this case exactly but thats because the calculation by Bagdawg is somewhat abreviated.
It would be more like: 1500 + (100% + 10%) * 1500 = 3150
Otherwise you will calculate: 1500 + 100% * 1500 + 10% * 3000 = 3300
Edit: Had a mistake in the calculation
Percentages rely on a base number, in this case 1500, so you need to add them together before taking the percentage.
I was aware of that, however I wasnt aware that he wasnt aware.
Honestly, people should just stop talking about mathematic when the only thing they can do is press buttons on a calculator without any basic understanding of what they are doing.