Is There Such a Thing As 120%

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@Barnardot

Yes, it's possible to go over 100%. In returns that is. Like if all you have is 100 bucks and you invest it some good weed for 100 bucks, then turn around and sell it for 220 bucks, you've made 120% profit. Err, I heard it can go that way. Anyways 120% exists!

MayCaesar

Yup. The highest inflation rate in Weimar Republic was on October 1983, reaching approximately 354,000% (annually). It was cooler in Zimbabwe, reaching nearly a trillion percent (1,000,000,000,000%) in mid-November 2008. In North Korea in 2009, depending on how you count, the inflation rate was up to infinity %, as the currency was inflated by a factor of 100 in a single moment.

Percentage can also be negative. If you take a buy stance JPY/USD at $1,000 with the margin of 250 and the broker fee of $10, and the next day the exchange rate plummets by 0.001, then your profit will be -$749.99, or roughly -75%.

I suppose percentage can also technically be complex-valued, although I am not aware of any examples of them being treated as such in practice, and it would kind of run against the purpose of percentages. Percentages are supposed to show how a fraction of a value compares to the value itself - but it makes no sense to compare complex-valued numbers like this. What is bigger, 1 or i? The question is not sensible, and it, in fact, can be proven that complex numbers cannot be ordered (and the proof is not terribly difficult).

Barnardot

@MayCaesar ;Yup. The highest inflation rate in Weimar Republic was on October 1983, reaching approximately 354,000% (annually).

Well to my mind it still defies logic how you can get 354000 out of a hundred. And what's more puzzling is that the Krauts went 50 years in to the future to get such an inflation rate which is what I would call cheating. It sounds just as unbelievable as getting a laptop for zero dollars and it doesnt end up costing you more.

MayCaesar

@Barnardot

Ah, you are that laptop guy? I remember warning you about the upcoming PTSD... Should have heeded it.

Barnardot

@MayCaesar ;Ah, you are that laptop guy? I remember warning you about the upcoming PTSD... Should have heeded it.

I headed it all right and I take all the right drugs no problem.