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Percentage Calculator: Your Essential Tool for Solving Percentage-Based Problems

Calculating percentages is a vital skill used in various aspects of daily life, from solving math problems to making financial decisions. Whether you are trying to figure out discount percentages, understand interest rates, or determine percentage increases and decreases, a percentage calculator can save time and eliminate the guesswork.

In this comprehensive guide, we explain how percentage calculations work, provide examples, and showcase different types of percentage-based calculations. Use this guide to sharpen your math skills and make informed decisions in everyday situations.

What Is a Percentage? Understanding the Basics

A percentage represents a part of a whole, expressed as a fraction of 100. The word “percentage” is derived from the Latin term per centum, which means “by the hundred.” Percentages are often used in financial analysis, retail sales, taxation, population statistics, and much more.

For example:

50% means 50 out of 100.

25% means one-quarter of a whole.

100% represents the entire quantity.

Calculating percentages can sometimes seem tricky, but with the right formula and a reliable percentage calculator, it becomes a straightforward process.

How to Calculate Percentages: Key Formulas

There are three primary types of percentage problems that you may encounter:

1. Finding the Percentage of a Given Number

This is the most common type of percentage calculation. To find the percentage of any given number, use the following formula:

Percentage (%) = (Part / Whole) × 100

Example: If you want to find out what percentage 20 is of 200:

(20 / 200) × 100 = 10% So, 20 is 10% of 200.

2. Calculating the Percentage Increase or Decrease

This type of calculation is useful when you want to measure changes in values over time, such as price increases or salary adjustments.

Percentage Change = [(New Value – Old Value) / Old Value] × 100

Example (Percentage Increase): If your salary increases from $50,000 to $55,000:

[(55,000 – 50,000) / 50,000] × 100 = 10% This means your salary increased by 10%.

Example (Percentage Decrease): If a stock’s value drops from $150 to $120:

[(150 – 120) / 150] × 100 = 20% This indicates a 20% decrease in the stock’s value.

3. Finding the Original Number from a Percentage

In some cases, you may know the percentage and the resulting amount but need to calculate the original number.

Original Number = Part / (Percentage / 100)

Example: If 30% of a number is 90, what is the original number?

90 / (30 / 100) = 90 / 0.3 = 300 The original number is 300.

Practical Applications of Percentages

1. Shopping Discounts

Percentages are widely used in retail to calculate discounts and final prices. Imagine you see a pair of shoes that costs $100 with a 20% discount. To find out how much you’ll pay after the discount:

20% of $100 = (20 / 100) × 100 = $20

Final price = $100 – $20 = $80 So, you’ll pay $80 after the discount.

2. Financial Calculations: Interest Rates and Investments

In finance, percentages are critical for calculating interest rates, loan repayments, and investment returns. For example, if you invest $1,000 in a savings account with a 5% annual interest rate, your interest for the year will be:

5% of $1,000 = (5 / 100) × 1,000 = $50 After one year, your total balance will be $1,050.

3. Health and Fitness: Body Fat Percentage

Percentages are also used in health and fitness, particularly when measuring body fat percentage, calorie intake, and other vital metrics. Tracking percentage changes in body weight can help individuals monitor their progress toward fitness goals.

Why Use a Percentage Calculator?

A percentage calculator is a convenient tool that helps you perform percentage-based calculations quickly and accurately. Whether you are solving complex math problems or making everyday financial decisions, a percentage calculator can:

Save Time: Perform calculations in seconds without manual effort.

Reduce Errors: Eliminate the risk of making common percentage-related mistakes.

Enhance Productivity: Focus on analyzing the results instead of spending time crunching numbers.

Common Types of Percentage Calculators

Depending on your needs, you can use various types of percentage calculators, including:

1. Percentage Increase Calculator

Ideal for measuring growth over time, such as price hikes, salary increases, and population growth.

2. Percentage Decrease Calculator

Useful for tracking declines, such as stock price drops or reductions in monthly expenses.

3. Discount Calculator

Perfect for shoppers who want to determine final prices after applying discounts.

4. Tip Calculator

Helpful for calculating tips in restaurants. For example, if your bill is $50 and you want to leave a 15% tip:

15% of $50 = (15 / 100) × 50 = $7.50 So, you’ll leave a $7.50 tip.

5. Reverse Percentage Calculator

This tool helps you find the original number before a percentage was added or subtracted.

Tips for Mastering Percentage Calculations

To improve your understanding of percentages and become more proficient in solving percentage-based problems, follow these tips:

Practice Regularly: The more you practice, the more confident you’ll become in calculating percentages.

Use Real-Life Examples: Apply percentage calculations to real-life situations, such as shopping, budgeting, or investing.

Double-Check Your Work: Always review your calculations to ensure accuracy.

Leverage Online Tools: Use online percentage calculators for quick and reliable results.

Conclusion: Simplify Your Calculations with a Percentage Calculator

Understanding percentages is essential for making informed decisions in various aspects of life, from shopping and finance to fitness and beyond. By using a percentage calculator, you can solve percentage-based problems quickly, accurately, and effortlessly. Whether you’re calculating discounts, measuring percentage changes, or determining original values, this powerful tool can enhance your productivity and accuracy.

Mastering percentage calculations will not only improve your math skills but also give you greater confidence in handling numbers in real-world situations. Start using a percentage calculator today and take the guesswork out of percentage-based problems!

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The Race Driving Style Secrets Podcast Episode 3 - Oscar Piastri

Transcript, Part 1 Part 2

Edd Straw: And actually on that point, in terms of say racing with Verstappen, I’ve seen a lot of people saying ‘oh Verstappen races Piastri differently to others’ or…

Mark Hughes: It's the other way around. 

ES: Exactly, yeah, exactly. And one thing you need to do with Verstappen is calculate in passing because he will do everything he possibly can to the maximum. But also, helps someone like Piastri in battle with him because it makes Max very predictable. Which I actually think is something of a weakness of Verstappen in battle. It’s great that he has that ability to push right to the limit, because that’s a useful weapon - whether you like it ethically or in racing or not is another matter - but it’s a great tool. But he always reaches for it. And if you’re Piastri that's great isn’t it. 

MH: Yeah, that's perfect. You’re right, it’s predictable. He takes the emotion out of racing. 

ES: Remember when Tsunoda hit him in Mexico a couple of years ago and sort of bounced off him and Piastri just came over the radio like ‘Yep’. [laughing]

MH: Yeah, and also when Verstappen took him out in Abu Dhabi turn one - ‘that was a good move from a world champion’ - and then just, you know, carried on. But yeah I think, of all the top drivers, he has less emotion in battle than any of them. Than Max, certainly than Lando, than George. He’s the calmest and that can be what wins you the race. 

ES: I think again that word economy. If you could have a little percentage bar of CPU occupancy while he’s racing you feel he would be pared down to the absolute minimum for what you need to do everything well. There’s no excess baggage, there’s no - I think Stella used a phrase recently [that] there’s no excess noise in his brain. And I think that applies to the way he drives as well as everything. 

MH: He’s been described, I’ve described him as like a sniper when he makes his moves. You know he identifies the target, he’s patient, he waits until he can line the shot up and then bang you’re done, through. And that’s it, there’s no clue beforehand either where it's going to be but he knows. It’s impressive. 

ES: And also willingness to be ruthless, be decisive. You know, we’ve seen occasionally there be moments with Norris - Monza last year - where it was an interesting one because they kept talking about papaya rules and he overtook within the bounds of what the papaya rules were. But I think if positions were reversed and Norris was in that, Norris’s understanding of what Mclaren was trying to achieve with that would’ve been broader and he would’ve thought no, this is not the time the team wants me to do that and risk compromising my teammate. Whereas Piastri’s like, oh here’s an opportunity. And I think you need that. 

MH: There’s always a point of conflict between when push comes to shove, between the team’s interests and the drivers. And most of the time it’s not there, most of the time it’s a common aim, but there's always moments where you have decouple from that joint agreement if you like. And say, no it’s not appropriate for this moment, I need to do what’s right for me. And yeah, he shows no compunction about doing that, whereas Lando does. 

ES: Lets talk about something we’ve talked about - the few drivers whose tolerance for instability, which is always very useful. Where do you think Piastri sits on that spectrum?

MH: Oh I think it’s high. I think he’s very happy to have a car which is a little bit unstable. That’s not how he would set it up but his tolerance for that is very high. And that’s what I meant when I said he’d be even more impressive if these cars were more agile, lighter and I think you’d see that style would really pay back in a more nimble car, that could be more aggressively hustled into a corner. I think you would be even more impressed.

ES: Yeah that’s a good point with those older style of cars in that the whole process of the turn in and the instability is condensed so you’re trying to react and calculate in an even narrower band where there’s things happening at even greater extremes. How about wet weather driving? I don’t feel we’ve seen a Piastri trademark wet weather drive, but there’s been plenty of glimpses.  

MH: Yeah I think he’s - I guess we need a bigger dataset.

ES: And that’s one thing we need to say about him. It's obvious, but he’s still very inexperienced. He’s the driver we’ve got the least to go on - plenty to go on but still the body of work, he’s not been tested across as broad a range as drivers that’ve been around for longer. That's not his fault, it’s just how it is.

MH: Yeah I think that's right. I haven’t seen any weakness in wet weather driving but at the same time we haven’t seen a starring Verstappen style Brazil type drive from him so yeah, let’s wait and see. 

ES: One thing that does interest me about Piastri is that I think he’s comfortable with his own limitations. By which I mean, on any given weekend, if there’s a point - let’s go back to that China example. I feel like Norris when he looks at Piastri, when he sees something like the China hairpin and thinks ‘oh i’ve got to try and do what Oscar can do’. Or, you could say the crash he had in Saudi in qualifying. Although he was actually quicker than Piastri generally through and out of that sequence, Piastri was gaining time into it. And I’m sure that crash was part of that, because he was like twelve kilometres an hour faster I think, twelve or fourteen kilometres an hour faster, and he crashed. And that was, I can’t believe that wasn’t because he was looking at what Piastri was doing and thinking, there’s a chance here. But Piastri, where I think he’s good is, I think he can look at what Norris is doing and seeing where the opportunity is. And he’ll always work at it, but there’ll come a point in qualifying where he’ll think ‘right, that corner, I can’t quite do what I’d ideally like to do, so I’m not going to go there’.

MH: Yeah I’m just going to park that.

ES: Because that’s my 100 percent.

MH: I’m just going to maximise myself. And accept that I can’t do what Lando for example is doing in that corner with the brakes so, the overlap for example, so let's just park that and I’ll work on that after the weekend and see if there’s any more in it. But like yep, he’s able to do that without emotion. And without getting sidetracked. And that’s won him two races I would say this year where he wasn’t inherently the faster McLaren driver. And he’s converted the ones where he is, but he’s also won races twice where he was lagging a little bit of pace. 

ES: That’s where you rack up the big numbers isn’t it, in Formula 1. I think it’s worth mentioning, we talk about mentality quite a lot. There was a really good observation - apologies off the top of my head I can’t remember who it was - in The Race Member’s club asking about when we talk about the mentality of drivers and is saying you need to be the sort of calm, ruthless, processing machine a bit almost regressive in terms of your attitude. And it’s a good point but I think it's worth noting that when we’re talking about the mentality it's basically in the car in the moment isn’t it. 

MH: Yes.

ES: It's the capacity to cut out all the other noise and emotion, and just execute based on what’s happening in front of you. And what’s going on outside is a little bit different to that in general character etc, but if you can just do what you do when it matters most, as if it doesn't matter, because that’s when you’re most in your subconscious process, instinct, whatever you like, that’s what we’re talking about with someone like Piastri. There’s no clutter, there’s no thinking about this that and the other. It’s just doing what’s in front of him. 

MH: Yeah it’s an interesting point. And that decoupling of the personality from inside the car and outside the car. You know, Oscar’s a lovely guy outside the car. And it’s very easy to imagine that the people around him in the team will have warmed to him very quickly. But yet he can still, when in the car, that all becomes irrelevant and he can, you know, pull off those moves like on Lando in Monza and Hungary also last year. So yeah, it’s interesting because there is a very distinct difference between those two modes. 

ES: And that ability to switch between them at the right time is quite valuable. And it does also mean that, when there's going to be an inevitable flashpoint somewhere - whether it’s just a driver taking an opportunity the team would probably prefer they didn’t but they need to, or whether there’s a clash on track or whatever - that’ll help Piastri because at least he’s got, if he’s on the wrong side of it, because of the way he’s out of the car it’ll make it easier for it not to then escalate more. But he’ll quite happily go into that situation. I feel like Norris knows he needs to, but I feel like it’ll turn into a long drawn out Hungary style thing where he’s just thinking ‘oh i could stay ahead, oh this isn’t the time, oh nah i won’t’. I think Norris is really sort of super committed to the idea of being part of the team above all things, and that is a great characteristic to have, but yeah difficult to do. 

Lets try and conclude on Piastri in terms of where he stands of the current drivers, particularly in terms of his outright pace. And there’s the one question you asked, there’s situations where Norris will be faster and and I guess it’s the question of how much can Piastri push into those sorts of areas as well and expand what he does, in order to be at his absolute maximum more consistently. But bearing in mind, we’ve got enough evidence this year that he’s upped that rate significantly because last year was patchier. Really good highs, plenty of lows, but this year has been pretty much all highs. Australia excepting, which was just one of those things with the rain coming down and bad luck. You know, it just happened. 

MH: Yeah I think he’s accessing his own potential probably as high as anyone, as high as Max even. And I don’t see his outright pace as being quite at the level of a Max, or a Charles Leclerc, or when everything is right a Lando Norris, but it’s not far away. And he’s able to access it without sort of stressing himself. And I think that is the real strength of Oscar. And there isn’t such a thing as the ‘fastest driver’. There’s fastest driver on the day, or you know in a certain situation in a certain car. But it depends what type of corners are on the circuit, what compound of tyres are being used, what’s the balance of the car, what’s the set up of the car, how much fuel has it got in it. These variations will change who is doing the better job, or the best job. And it’s just trying to hit as many high ones as possible, and that’s I think Oscar’s very good at having a good average, a very good average. A bit like Alonso in that respect, although his driving style is very different. 

ES: And yeah the other interesting thing with that is he’s still relatively early in his career. I feel like almost he jumped from a second year driver at the end of last year, to like a fourth or fifth year driver this year.

MH: Yeah that’s true. 

ES: And he’s processed a lot over the winter, and things have come together really really well, so yeah we don’t know how close he is to his ceiling but there’s definitely going to be more to come from him than some of the other drivers that’ve been around longer, that’s just the way it works. But yeah, he’s made a fantastic impression in Formula 1 and there’s no doubt he’s one of the absolute top drivers and we’ll see how it shuffles out with that adaptability and the ability to do it with any car, any day etc at the highest possible rate over the next few years. Another thing that has been talked about a lot with Piastri is tyre management and there’s an interesting trend with him because in the first year obviously tyre management was a big area of improvement. It always is, it just is. There’s so many different things to learn. It's a toolkit, not a binary - if you do this then you’re great. Lots of factors there. And he took that step in the second year and it was still a little bit weak last year and then this year he seems to have taken another stride. 

MH: Yep. You’d put him up against anybody in tyre management now, you know against Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, those guys [who are] very very experienced, very very good at feeling the tyre. But as you say, it’s not really a science, it’s only partly a science. It’s to do with familiarity with an almost infinite range of situations and recognising what's being demanded of you in that moment. And quite often only you can know that, regardless of the team having data and things. Quite often it’s to do with feel, and recognising oh this means that, and then oh I’ve had things back then and I did this but that was wrong. All those things. And that takes ages to build up because it's such an organic thing that it’s not that really ABC equals, you know, it’s constantly moving. And I think that's why it takes so long now with these tyres for a rookie to really, really become a top driver. I think the chances of seeing a rookie do a 2007 Lewis Hamilton on these tyres is virtually zero. 

ES: But Piastri ultimately did do some modern version, not quite of Hamilton because it’s not quite the same, but obviously his first season he was straight away at a high level. And I think that overall is the great thing about Piastri - he started at such a high level. And there’s some drivers who have pretty reasonable careers who wouldn’t be able to do some of the things Piastri did even in that first year, let alone where Piastri is now. 

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Arthur Delaney at HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that sky-high new taxes on imported goods would be “reciprocal,” meaning they were payback for tariffs other countries have slapped on U.S. exports. But the reciprocal tariffs turned out not to be based on actual levies imposed by other countries. Instead, they’re based on a formula made up by the White House ― and widely mocked by experts. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative economist American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, called it “malpractice” in response to another conservative economist who called it “embarrassing.” The formula, which resulted in wildly different tariffs for various foreign countries, including several uninhabited islands, first came to wide attention thanks partly to analysis by an anonymous social media user who reckoned the percentage rate of the tariffs matched other countries’ trade surpluses with the U.S. divided by their exports. The journalist James Surowiecki also noticed the correlation. “They didn’t actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did,” Surowiecki wrote. “Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country’s exports to us.” In other words, the supposedly reciprocal tariffs, which are supposed to combat arbitrary foreign barriers to U.S. goods, are themselves based on an arbitrary formula. In a response on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, White House spokesman Kush Desai called the analyses “incorrect” and pointed to a fuller explanation of the formula from the U.S. Trade Representative, which claimed that other countries’ “non-tariff policies” cause them to sell more goods to the U.S. than we sell back to them. “If trade deficits are persistent because of tariff and non-tariff policies and fundamentals, then the tariff rate consistent with offsetting these policies and fundamentals is reciprocal and fair,” the USTR said on its website, which included a seemingly more complicated math equation and several academic citations. [...] Cole noted that the U.S. purchases a lot of consumer goods that are made more cheaply in other countries and that the outgoing dollars are often reinvested in American companies and government debt, rather than simply hoarded by foreigners. He questioned the wisdom of trying to upend the global order by making it more expensive for Americans to buy clothing and electronics made in Indonesia, for example. “The U.S. is this hub for all sorts of investment, and people love our financial assets, and they have to give us goods in exchange, and that’s kind of how the world’s been working for a long time, and that’s why we’ve run a trade deficit,” he said. “Why should Americans be sewing shirts together, for example? A huge fraction of these tariffs are based on bilateral trade imbalances with Southeast Asia, where they’re good at making textiles.” Since the tariffs are paid by U.S. importers who can raise prices to recoup all or part of the cost of the tariffs, Trump’s “liberation day” announcement this week could be tantamount to the largest tax increase on U.S. consumers in decades. At the same time, economists have said the tariffs could increase price inflation and slow economic growth, potentially even throwing it in reverse and triggering a recession.

47’s using an arbitrary formula to determine which nations got the baseline 10% and which got higher illustrates how insane his broad-based tariff policy is.

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Well, it's time to talk about tribute, currency units, and a bit about the surrounding environment - how it's affected by the Starfolk and what their diet is like. So it might get a little boring.

Within the fief, residents pay tribute every year before or during the start of autumn. Starfolk have several options for how to pay this tribute: either in pure monetary income - called liostal (from Gaelic briostal – shard, sliogan – small shell) - or in raw materials. They can also mix both types, adjusting the percentages accordingly, usually falling between 70% and 30%, depending on how the Starfolk choose to pay and the situation within the fief. Sometimes a decree may be issued recommending payment in certain proportions, and the percentages might change for specific reasons.

There are, however, unchanging exceptions for certain fields - for example, builders. They obviously can’t tear a piece off a wall to prove they’ve done work, so they pay entirely in monetary compensation. Typically, their employers handle this, allocating a portion of their wages and effectively calculating and paying the tribute on behalf of their workers.

Farmers and other Starfolk who work with production tend to use a mixed type of payment, although they usually provide tribute in the form of the raw materials they have produced or extracted.

The tribute then moves on to the fief and from there may reach the capital. It’s best to start with the capital: it collects tribute from the other fiefs once every 4–5 years, typically 60 percent in provisions and 40 percent in pure income, though this can vary depending on the fief’s situation. Some are endowed with higher production, resulting in an excess of goods, so the fief may pay entirely with those. Others simply have more money and pay in coin. This situation can change, especially if a particular fief has had an unproductive year or two due to weather conditions, but the capital usually doesn’t take that into account. It might only pay attention if several fiefs in a region report the same issue - in such a case, the capital grants them a recovery period, exempting them from tribute for a certain time (typically 3 to 8 years) to allow them to recuperate. If only one fief suffers, the capital disregards the reasons, and the fief is left either in debt to the capital (which is very costly) or must request help from other fiefs, remaining in debt but to them instead (which is usually cheaper, though not always).

Each fief is known for something. While Starfolk may not know every detail about a given fief or its location, they clearly associate it with the goods and benefits it provides. For example, Soaring Gardens are known for steel extraction and silk production, while the Flaming Spire is famed for growing spices, delicacies, and materials for writing and reading.

And now, how tribute is distributed within the fief. Although the capital only requires tribute once in a while, it demands the total amount accumulated over the entire period, not just the year in which it’s due. Therefore, it’s easier to calculate this from the “leftovers” the fief retains after paying tribute to the capital - namely, 40% of the provisions and 60% of the monetary tribute (though these values can be reversed or vary).

Now, rounding the 40% of goods to 100%, this is typically distributed as follows: 50 to 70 percent is sold to neighboring fiefs, while 30% remains in the local granary (this too can be reversed or vary).

As for monetary resources, rounding the 60% to 100%, the internal distribution is different.

30% goes to the fief treasury, under the control of the fief priest, who is entitled to 17% of this amount for personal use, which he may spend as he sees fit. Anyone can access the treasury - not freely, but by submitting requests explaining their needs. The priest reviews these and decides whether to allocate resources. Requests tend to be fulfilled more quickly when many concern the same issue, such as building a new bridge or structure, allocating land for planting, and so on.

10% goes to the high lord’s treasury, which he can manage however he wishes, as it is not tied to any obligations.

20% is allocated to the upper class - the ruling elite - considered to be just one cycle, meaning these funds go to Starfolk who happened to be born into a particular kind. It may seem like a lot - more than what the lord or priest receives - but considering that cycles include far more Starfolk, each usually receives barely 0.1% of the amount, and this share decreases with lower rank within the cycle.

So-called “lesser lords” may occasionally receive payments from the capital by birthright, but more on that later. First, the rest of the fief’s tribute: 30% goes to the population, considered future wages for ordinary Starfolk. The final 10% is held in reserve, untouched unless absolutely necessary - for example, if distribution proportions become unbalanced (like not enough for the population or elite or the lord), or if a year or several are unproductive. In such cases, the reserves can be used to pay tribute to the capital and avoid falling into debt. These reserves are also built up in advance for potential debt repayment.

Now about the birthright that grants a reward from the capital. From time to time, the capital reviews the productivity of each fief and then allocates a certain amount, with 20 percent designated for the fief’s lord and the rest for the first-cycle Starfolk within that same fief, while the priests receive... nothing. But that’s not a problem, since priests still end up with more money overall, as they receive it annually, whereas lords and the others only receive it at intervals - usually at the same time as tribute must be paid to the capital.

The reason for this lies in the relationship between lords and priests, their rights, roles, and responsibilities - and most importantly, to prevent conflict. In truth, many lords are dissatisfied with the higher standing of priests and would like to remove them entirely to claim full ruling authority. However, the reason they don’t is simple - laziness. Lords want absolute power but are unwilling to handle the day-to-day affairs of the fief, preferring to relax. Therefore, there’s an agreement: priests manage all internal matters, while lords are responsible only for external affairs.

The most crucial part is that only a lord has the final word - one that no one has the right to dispute. Though some priests may push back and disagree, in certain cases the lords do relent. So the priest functions as the lord’s workforce, also responsible for calculating taxes - though the lords have made this "easier" by calculating the portions meant for themselves, the first-cycle Starfolk, and the reserves.

Lords also oversee the organization of public festivals and the establishment of rules and reforms within the fief (considering Raudar’s current position, he must do all of this on his own).

And now, probably the most important part - what liostals actually look like. Each faction has its own design, but they all carry the same value, as the currency was introduced during an era when there was leniency in relations between the Starfolk, when they could freely trade among themselves despite differences. Nowadays, this is rarely practiced, except in a few officially designated fiefs by the capital, and within the underground and black markets.

Local currencies are made from several materials: silk, plant veins, sand, crystal, and shell. Here’s the breakdown of what each material is used for. The base is formed from shell fragments, harvested from the shells of local Starfolk - not by breaking or gutting them, but from natural filtration. The shells produce these shards themselves, which later detach. These fragments form the unique design known as the “crystal pattern,” though there’s no crystal involved in this part. Crystal is used elsewhere - to coat the shell and to engrave the denomination and serial number.

Each denomination not only has a distinct shape but also a color, achieved by adding colored sand. And before moving on to the final features of the currency, one important thing must be said: Starfolk currency cannot be stolen. Well - it can be taken, but no one except the rightful owner can use it.

This is made possible through the use of veins of foliage, which retain the elemental energy of the owner, completely filling the liostal - making it unusable by anyone other than the Starfolk whose energy flows within the currency. So how do they make payments? On the reverse side, there are two small indentations made of silk, known as vessels of trade. These are connected to the plant veins, and when a Starfolk decides to make a payment, they place their finger on one side of the indentation to absorb their own magic, thus releasing the currency. Then another Starfolk can infuse the emptied currency with their own magic through the second indentation.

The process takes only a second. There used to be just one indentation, but while the owner was drawing out their energy and preparing to hand it over, it could be stolen in an instant - someone could quickly fill the currency with their own magic, making it impossible to reclaim (unless they were caught and beaten until they withdrew their energy). To prevent this, the dual-indentation system was introduced: the owner absorbs their energy from one side while holding the other side toward the intended recipient, allowing them to immediately grasp and infuse the liostal.

Can this be bypassed? Yes, but the secret is generally known only to those who mint the currency - knowledge even lords don’t have access to. Taking the dark route often isn’t worth it, since illegally extracting magic can cost more than the stolen amount. If someone tries to infuse the currency while it already holds another’s elemental magic, it either won’t respond or will simply shatter. Only if it’s partially emptied might one be able to force out the remnants of the previous owner’s energy with their own.

As for the segments or “coins,” there are only four instead of a hundred to represent the full value, and they are contained within each liostal denomination. These segments can be removed, though they’re usually kept separately. However, all segments are linked, so if, for example, someone needs to pay 5.3 liostals, they can break off the necessary amount, and later recombine the parts to prevent them from being lost.

The shape of the liostal also allows for versatile storage - sometimes they are stacked to enable the quick extraction and charging of several liostals within a single second, instead of doing it individually for each coin.

Additionally, because of their form, liostals can easily snap together, which leads some to create intricate shapes or figurine-like stacks for easier transport. Different denominations can also be fused into a single high-value liostal, mainly for transporting tribute to avoid carrying too many small shards.

Now regarding the influence starfolks have on their surroundings. The plants used in currency absorb and retain magic for a reason. By law, starfolks are only allowed to use a specific plant for this purpose - but in truth, every plant is capable of it. To explain this more clearly, take the example of Mountain Bastion during the rule of the darkfolks. Back then, the high peaks were much warmer and windier, which kept the skies perpetually clear. The environment was almost the same, maybe a little darker, and the vegetation mainly consisted of sharp-tasting or sweet-sour fruits and vegetables.

When the lightfolks took over the Bastion, the climate became noticeably colder, and thunderclouds settled permanently over the mountains with constant lightning. The vegetation also changed - from sharp and sweet to more refreshing, like mint, and mildly astringent, like bitter tea. The appearance and colors of the plants also shifted.

In other words, sometimes the conditions of a land are influenced by the ruling faction. The color of the terrain may change slightly, weather shifts are rare but do happen, while the flora always changes to match the faction. Their magic affects it - especially the flavor. While most starfolks can experience a full range of tastes, there are exceptions. Each faction lacks consistent access to a certain flavor: lightfolks don’t have spicy plants, and darkfolks don’t have refreshing ones. Some flavors are present in smaller amounts - for example, darkfolks have few astringent plants, and lightfolks rarely have sour ones.

The same applies to minerals. Lightfolks are unaware of the existence of salt, as it's obtained either from the sea or very dark places they typically don’t explore. Darkfolks, in turn, can't access chalk dust. (Though some do know of these things through certain workarounds.)

Regarding diet, it can be said that all starfolks are vegetarians, consuming only fruits, vegetables, minerals, and rare provisions provided by animal-like starfolks, such as milcru. Technically, they could eat animalistic starfolks, considering those beings would regenerate, but such behavior is deemed completely unacceptable in their society. Even starfolks that resemble “carnivores” - like local wolves or lions - only consume plant matter, for them “herbivorous” starfolks are either seen as potential sources of absorption and for herbivorous in turn, carnivores pose a threat to their own polarity, because every starfolk tends to view others in only two ways: either as an absorbtion source or as a danger. Any interaction outside these two roles is seen as savage or perverse and is punished severely.

However, there have been darker chapters in history when some attempted to "taste" others. While most starfolks see such acts as distant, monstrous, and unthinkable in modern times, few realize that such a practice actually occurred fairly recently - on the border between the two kingdoms.

[skloobles]

how many people are there in bunnyville?

ive been a little bored today so i thought i'd crunch some numbers quickly to figure out just how big bunnyville is. now of course most of this is wildly unsubstantiated so don't take what i say as gospel or really anything within an ounce of truth. but it's fun thought experiment so bear with me.

quick warning — this is a bit of a long post. proceed with caution.

i'm solely basing this on the episode "community service" as it's a) the only time we see democracy in action in the whole series and i'm a nerd; b) has numbers! and c) i can't remember if they touched on this anywhere else in what remains of the english dub

part I - the poll

so as a quick reminder at the beginning of the episode there's a "judicial phone-in" where citizens vote a la x factor/big brother/other tv show to decide bunny's fate. i've compiled a nifty table for the results, shown below:

So we can gather that at least 1,537,768 people voted in that very short poll. which is a lot, all things considered.

but there is also the issue that we don't have an exact number for how many votes that third option got. the government of bunnyville doesn't keep records on account of being a fictional nation with a dictatorial government but i'll lowball a little and say it's around 1,250,000. additionally, we should account for stan calling the fourth option 1,000 times a second.

so how long was the poll? i hear you cry. the timer shown on screen is very fast, and would probably only amount to four or five seconds maximum. in the episode, there's about a minute between the polls opening and the results being shown, so we'll say it's around a minute and 15 seconds to account for some margin of error. this means stan would've made a whopping 75 thousand calls for life imprisonment. this leaves us with a number of around 1,712,768 people – 1,712,759 of whom wanted bunny to be punished in some way.

so how does this help us calculate bunnyville's population? we can account for cell phone usage in 2009, average turnout for this sort of thing, etc. and that'll hopefully lead us to a number.

part II - what's in a vote?

at its core, this poll is a form of direct democracy. in a direct democracy, citizens vote directly on laws and issues, with the will of the majority (or even just the plurality) making the decision, sometimes in spite of an elected government. good examples of direct democracies (or representative democracies with direct elements) include switzerland, liechtenstein, and ireland. so let's use some turnouts to decide what percentage of bunnyville's population voted in the poll

one problem is that turnout in referenda varies wildly. the average referendum in switzerland has a turnout of about 45–50%, but referenda in singapore and scotland have had turnouts as high as 80–90% – so how important is the issue of bunny maloney to the general public?

on the whole, it's clear the protecteam have a tendency to dominate the news cycle a little, so we'll place the referendum at a bit higher turnout. obviously not too high, maybe just around 60%. i'm sure that's reasonable.

doing a reverse percentage calculation on this number gives us a result of 2635027.692, which we'll round up to 2,635,028.

part III - mobile telephony

there's a lot of statistics to deal with in terms of phone sales and phone ownership, but as i live in the uk and the world revolves around me i'll be using figures from the uk.

uswitch states that in 2009 only 28% of people used their mobile phones to access the internet, suggesting quite a low usage. however, according to statista, in 2009 81% of households in the uk had access to a mobile phone, quite the increase from even just a decade before. however, this number only accounts for households and doesn't take into account individual people. another statista figure states that only 44% of people used a smartphone in 2011, a few years after the show's premiere.

so which of these numbers do we use? all of them! i took the average of the three and got 51%, which may seem a little low for a population as tech-obsessed as the bunnyvilleans but it'll do.

so doing a reverse calculation with this percentage gives us an answer – 2,635,028 is 51% of 5166721.569, which we'll round up to 5,166,721.

part IV - a minimum age

if there's one thing that telephone polls and referenda have in common, it's a minimum age to vote. as is standard across most of the world, we'll be setting this at 18 years old. according to the 2021 UK census, 20.7% of people in the uk are aged between 0 and 17. that is to say, 79.3% of people were over 18.

this is a farely simple one – 5,166,721 is 79.3% of 6515411.097. we'll round this down to a final number of approximately 6,515,411 citizens.

part V - what does it all mean?

so – bunnyville has a population of around 6,515,411 people. this is quite a respectable size for a city and indeed a country – bunnyville would be the 46th largest city (with a population slightly larger than zhengzhou and rio de janiero) and the 109th largest country (with a population a bit smaller than all of serbia) in the world. while it's not the largest in terms of cities, it is very large in terms of city states (though only because the bar is so low). it far exceeds states such as the vatican, monaco, and even macau in terms of population, and is even larger than singapore. by my calculations, only hong kong is larger in terms of citystates.

could this mean bunnyville has the cultural impact some of these other countries have? maybe! but given how insular the city tends to be (both literally and in the sense that we don't really see much of foreign lands in the series) i'd argue that the little dictatorship serves more as an oddity the rest of the earth gawks at rather than some powerhouse of culture and advancement.

or i could be entirely wrong. you decide!

part VI - tl;dr

it's around 6 and a half million people

[ratlesshonret]

I ran some numbers just for fun, and came to some interesting conclusions about Limbus Company's story structure and game design. I analyzed what percentage of stages are just story, have story/combat, and are just combat, for Cantos IV, V, and VI.

Canto IV, in general, is regarded as fairly poorly paced, with many stages of just combat against the same generic enemies, while Canto V and VI are regarded as having fixed these issues by adding more story stages and supplementing many would-be just-combat stages with story parts at the start or end of the fight.

But, what are the numbers? To be clear, while I will list dungeons, I will not be factoring them into the final calculations because I already did the calculations without them and I'm too lazy to redo them.

And once I run the numbers, I'll go into a lot of detail about why the story may feel more well-paced, especially in Canto VI.

Doing a check, Canto IV has 54 total stage. -9 Just Story -21 Combat/Story -23 Just Combat -1 Dungeon

Now, let's take a look at Canto V. It has 36 total stages, putting it already at 18 less levels than the last Canto. -12 Just Story -21 Combat/Story -2 Just Combat -1 Dungeon

Finally, let's look at Canto VI, which has 48 stages. -14 Just Story -28 Combat/Story -6 Just Combat

Now, let's run some numbers. In Canto IV: -81% of stages have some combat -42% of stages are just combat -55% of stages have some story -16% of stages are just story If you count story/combat stages as half a stage on each side, then Canto IV has 19.5 story stages, and 33.5 combat stages. This means that you spend about 62% of time in combat, and only 38% of time in the story, assuming that each combat and story section takes the same time to play through.

Now, let's look at Canto V: -63% of stages have some combat -5% of stages have just combat -91% of stages have some story -33% of stages have just story If you count story/combat stages as half a stage on each side, then Canto V has 22.5 story stages, and 12.5 combat stages. This means that you spend 34% of time in combat, and 66% of time in the story. This is literally the exact opposite of the last Canto.

Finally, Canto VI: -70% of stages have some combat -12% of stages have just combat -87% of stages have some story -29% of stages have just story If you count story/combat stages as half a stage on each side, then Canto VI has 28 story stages and 20 combat stages. This means that you spend 41% of time in combat, and 59% of time in the story. More combat than Canto V, but not as much as IV.

For a quick TL;DR, if we assume combat and story take equal playtime to complete: Canto IV - 62% Combat, 38% Story Canto V - 34% Combat, 66% Story Canto VI - 41% Combat, 59% Story

As we can see, Canto IV and V are basically reversals of each other in terms of the combat/story ratio, while Canto VI is somewhat in the middle of them, leaning closer to Canto V's ratio.

However, one big thing to consider with Canto VI is the amount of boss fights. Many stages in Canto VI have long boss battles, and if these were counted as their own kind of stage, I imagine this part of the game would have a very skewed ratio compared to previous parts. If we make some general assumptions that these fights take much longer than the ones in Canto IV, and are more likely to result in retries due to their difficulty, then the combat time in Canto VI may be closer to a flat 50/50, or even a 60/40 in the other direction, which would put it almost even with Canto IV.

So why does Canto VI not feel like a slog to play through compared to Canto IV? Well, you may already know the answer: the fights are more interesting. Fighting a complex boss with gimmicks and flavor is much more fun than just beating up the same robots and EGO-wearing Fixers over and over again. And even if you have to retry the fight a few times, the learning of a bosses abilities and how to approach the fight, alongside details such as unique sprites, animations, and music, leads to a generally more engaging experience.

(CANTO VI SPOILERS BELOW)

Canto VI is also special in how oddly it is balanced. Most of the combat-only stages occur around the start of the final third, while almost half of the just-story stages happen within the first third. It leads off with a lot of story and setup, before throwing you into fight after fight, and eventually, boss after boss.

In my personal opinion, I wasn't the biggest fan of how Canto VI just felt like a boss-rush. But I understand why many people enjoyed this type of gameplay. Especially fans who came over from Ruina, like myself, and who are used to the structure of back-to-back tough and unique battles, rather than the early-Limbus structure that gave dozens of waves of generics to plow through.

But back to the game-design aspect, I think the way Canto VI does setup and payoff is interesting. In Canto V, the story and combat sections are fairly balanced. Each combat stage comes with story, and the few that don't usually place a just-story stage immediately after. Canto VI also does this, but it's a bit different with how many bosses there are.

In Canto VI, it begins with lots of story, as mentioned before. This sort of leads to a feeling of building up to something, the exposition leaves you invested. When you get to the "boss rush" section, you get rewarded with the story payoff whenever you defeat a boss. Once that's done, you get thrown right into another boss, with another payoff. The story starting slow and building means that they can throw you into a cycle of challenge-payoff-challenge-payoff in a way that feels real and rewarding to the player. The tough challenge comes, and you get immediate story payoff that works due to the first third of the story being used to set up many different plot threads and characters.

Once that middle-third "boss rush" is over, you get a bit of a break in the form of the Wild Hunt. The section of stages that's mostly just combat, with fairly little story in it. After a few levels of this, you're back to bosses. This time, however, they usually come accompanied with full story stages after their defeat, which are usually used to set up the scenario for the upcoming boss fight afterwards. It's similar to the boss rush segment, but much less of a rush and more of just a chain.

This section mainly works by making each boss feel more impactful. You already dealt with the boss rush, but now, this chain of bosses coming with full story-levels worth of setup really makes them feel like the important ones. You climbed up the hill of bosses, and received that challenge-payoff cycle several times, and now you're at the part where it's more of a buildup-payoff, where the payoff is the boss fight. And of course, this culminates in the ultimate buildup-payoff, where you get two whole story stages worth of buildup into the final battle against the Erlking and Catherine.

Overall, this story structure is effective because it balances the story and combat in a way where it starts with a slow build, uses that to throw you into a cycle of challenge-payoff, gives you a small break of just combat, before finally giving you larger buildups into the more important bosses.

So even though you may be spending just as much, or even more, time in combat in Canto VI than Canto IV, it feels better because Project Moon balanced the story in such a way where every battle gives you a payoff for completing it, and each fight has been sufficiently built up by the former story segments.

[hillerskalibrary]

Event poll results!

(summary version)

So last week I opened a poll to check what kind of YR fandom events you guys wanted to see and the respondents were... how shall I put it... "very excited" is most applicable I think? ;)

Because I'm a nerd who likes to analyze the results but also doesn't want to chase her entire following away, I'm going to make two result posts:

This post, where I will summarize the results as succint as I can, and address some of the remarks and suggestions that I received. I'll also make a conclusion on what I would suggest to do - feedback on that is certainly welcome!

A second post (which I'll link when I finish it, most likely tomorrow or even after cause I'm slow as fuck) with some more graphs, percentages, observations, cause I don't know shit about statistics but that won't stop me from having fun with it!

Fair warning - it's pretty long. I just find it easier to explain a little about the decisions I'm (not) taking, both to invite discussion and because I don't want this to be a black box blog that does whatever and you never know why. That being said...

Ready? Let's go!

RESULTS

I received 72 responses, 36 writers and 36 readers.

The top 3 most wanted events by READERS is: Big Bang (89%), Theme Week (86%), and Weekly Challenges (83%). The event they were least excited about is Author Interviews (56%).

The top 3 events writers most want to PARTICIPATE in is, in order: Author Interviews (69%), Theme Week (64%), and Fic Exchange (61%). The events they DO NOT want to participate in are Author Interviews (25%), very closely followed by Big Bang and Advent (both 22%).

READERS were (very) slightly more excited about a Wilmon theme week rather than a general YR week. WRITERS clearly preferred a general YR week. For both groups, a YR women week comes in third, and rarepair week is fourth.

All types of weekly writing challenges suggested scored similarly.

(I know some of these seem contradictory, which I why I'll make the second post explaining how I calculated these rankings and why -for example- Author Interviews are both the most AND the least popular event for writers ;) )

SUGGESTIONS

A lot of people wrote in suggestions, which I was SUPER happy about (I closed the form now but if you have any more, please just hit my inbox or DM me at @hilliska). A few people also offered to help, which I'm definitely gonna hold you to when decisions are starting to get made! ;)

Many people were excited about possible collabs between writers and artists.

"What about a "finish your draft/wip" or "write a new chapter on a wip". I have so many languishing WIPs…" I think this is an EXCELLENT idea tbh - though we could incorporate it in the big bang by allowing wips as well. Also, as an FYI, there is also a (non-fandom-specific) Finish Your Shit-Big Bang that takes place every year (though this year's round is close to posting already) ;).

"I’d also love to see more Podfic in this fandom, but I don’t know how that could be an event." I have zero experience with podfic but this does sound (ha!) like it could be fun. Maybe someone has experience with this from a different fandom? (honestly I'd love to experiment with this so hmu)

"Authors sign up to take one shot requests or readers get to write a prompt. Or if readers could submit or vote on prompts or something? Or readers submit a song and author writes a one shot based on a song. Something like that where readers can be involved too :)" We could also easily incoporate this in a big bang - do a prompt bang or a reverse bang (fic based on art) for example? Or maybe involve readers in the weekly challenges, by suggesting tropes/words/... ?

"Write a comment on a fic-week!" Yessss!!!! I am like... 95% sure there is a tumblr-wide event for this already but I can't for the life of me find it. So I could signal boost that or yeah, we could just pin a day ourselves :).

"Group chat/watch" I'm afraid I'm not the right person to organize this kind of thing, but if you've been thinking of doing this and you were afraid no one would be interested - this is your sign!! ;)

"live writing event" Same as above - though I do think there's some discords where this happens already?

"Some sort of collab, where authors get to write a fic together." This could definitely be fun! There is currently one that originated on Twitter called Unlabeled - I don't know all the writers but I recognize at least @yourdemiurge, @skydragon05, @1-life-to-give, and @in-amor-veritas. Which obviously doesn't help if you're a writer wanting to collab, but at least there's people with experience in this fandom ;).

"Maybe a poetry week?" I don't even write poetry but I'm obsessed with this suggestion. Could also be a writing challenge? Not sure about a whole week either, but there's World Poetry Day in March so maybe that can be a mini-event?

"Something not fic centered? Like fanart, edits, cosplay etc." This is one of those things that I'm throwing out there for other people to run with, maybe, because. Well, I'm a writer and I know fic, but I really don't know much about the rest... Which is not to say I don't want to (help) run anything like this because it definitely could be fun, but it's a little out of my wheelhouse. But maybe @youngroyalsfanartarchive can help or knows people who would?

And now what??

Consider the below not as a definitive list but as a stream-of-consciousness conversation starters, so don't hesitate to send me your thoughts.

I will definitely do a Big Bang. Prompt-based or art-based or wip-based or something else remains to be decided, but this will happen. It will not happen NOW, however, because we don't know when season 3 will air. Big Bangs are big events, they ask a lot from writers, and if the s3 premiers at any time between signups and publications, it's going to make everything more difficult. But there was sufficient interest by writers to participate, so once we got a s3 date I want to put a timeline on this.

I'm talking with people about a possible YR women's week. The general/Wilmon week scored higher in the polls, but since we already had that in spring I'd like to switch it up a little.

I would like to do *something* for the anniversary of s2. Don't want to go regular theme week for this because of the above possibility, but maybe the not-fic-centered event could be good for this - we could do favorite episode/favorite non-wilmon character/... which are things that non-content-creators can also participate in by writing a short paragraph, reblogging gifsets/art of that episode/character, ... "Finish your wip" would also be a good one for this though :)

The people behind the 2023 Secret Santa will not organize one this year, but I don't really want to jump in that, necessarily, because there's enough other possibilities and they might be back. But a Valentine fic exchange could maybe work?

The advent calendar idea drew mixed reactions (maybe because it's less well known?) and while I do think it could be fun, there's enough other things that people are excited about, so I'm putting it in the freezer for now.

The weekly challenges also drew mixed reactions - both readers and writers were excited to see them happen, but only a third of writers said they would definitely/probably participate. Then again, half of them said they would POSSIBLY participate. Maybe because it's an ongoing thing, so they don't want to promise they'd participate EACH WEEK but only sometimes? So I'm not sure about this (also because it would significantly up the time required to maintain the blog). So I'd love more feedback on this to see which shape or form you guys would like this to take.

Fic recs scored solidly in the middle of the possibilities for both reader and writers. I wanted to include it because I was curious, but I'm a little hesitant to really do something with it, mostly because it often ends up being a popularity contest and. Well. We already know how to sort by kudos/comments on AO3. So I'm curious to hear other people's experiences on how to maybe circumvent that.

The Author Interviews were the most contested event - even (or rather *especially* among writers (and I secretly think it's hilarious the most wanted event by writers is the one that doesn't require them to write at all :D). I do think it could be fun (though I admit this is a format mostly geared towards writers) to help other writers to find other people to collaborate with, find betas, learn about different writing processes, ... And a self-rec feature would allow for fic recs without the popularity factor. So I'll most likely run this as a (bi-)weekly feature alongside the other events.

[fdrlibrary]

Women at Work

World War II profoundly affected the lives of American women as the nation mobilized for national defense. With factories booming and millions of men entering the military, labor shortages threatened the war effort. To help overcome this problem, the government urged women to enter the workforce in greater numbers. Millions responded, including many who took well-paying industrial jobs previously reserved for men. Between 1940 and 1944 the percentage of women workers in the iron and steel industry jumped from 6.7% to 22.3%. In the automotive sector it increased from 5.7% to 24.4% and in the chemical industry from 15.4% to 31.6%. Between 1941 and 1944, the number of working women rose from 14.6 million to 19.4 million. Married women accounted for over two-thirds of this increase.

While encouraging women to join the industrial workforce, wartime recruitment posters sometimes offered mixed messages that reflected, and reinforced, the pervasive gender discrimination present in America during the 1940s. The imagery in many was calculated to assure Americans that female war workers retained their traditional femininity. Some offered reassuring messages that women would happily exchange their “overalls for aprons” when the men returned from battle. While many women wished to remain in their jobs after the war, they were encouraged to give up their positions to returning veterans. During demobilization, they were terminated in disproportionately large numbers. Ultimately, most wartime employment gains for women were reversed. Yet the experiences of women war workers helped inspire the postwar women’s rights movement.

Learn more about this poster on our Digital Artifact Collection: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/.../theres-work-to-be...

Follow along throughout 2024 as we feature more #TheArtOfWar WWII posters from our Digital Artifact Collection.

[theoogtree]

Also I finished Final Fantasy 13-2 here's my review no one asked for. it's fun and the story is neat and despite being about time traveling n paradoxes is easy to follow and understand. It did feel very short plotwise but with the way I play games I didn't mind n I had fun doing everything else in between the plot. I like how it was more open world and you can reverse time to replay areas because one of the things I dislike the most about 13 is that everywhere you go before you get to Gran Pulse you can never go back to again

serah is written like an entire human that's cool and capable and driven and compassionate and I like that she does shit her own way and speaks her mind and takes calculated risks. noel is extremely 2011 hot guy (tm) but I'm into that and even though he projects his issues on to everyone eventually he remembers to be respectful and I like how open and honest he is about his feelings and motivations and dreams and everything. Vanille and fang and sazh are still there and still hot in their little cameos. Lightning is there too I guess. Snow needs to put that beanie back on he looks so ugly without it and also I still can't fucking stand him which is weird because usually I love loud annoying ride or die jackasses but I think it's the Troy Baker effect that makes him so unbelievably unattractive lmfao. I was in love with hope when I was 14 and he was 14 in 2010 and I'm in love with him now when I'm 29 and he's 27 in 2025 <3 there was like this whole subplot with Alyssa that they just fucking dropped for no reason and never got any resolution??? Every time caius showed up it was like jesus christ does this dude ever stop yapping. yeul kind of became the new serah in that she was kind of just there to die a lot and be motivation for the main plot. chocolina being in woff makes sense now

the thing that blows ass is there's a whole entire world that you can go to and in fact you have to go there for plot reasons except when you get there it's a Big Empty Arena and some guy is like "the time will come when the Coliseum opens and you can fight huge foes from across time and space anyway take this plot item and get out" so you leave thinking like okay it'll be endgame or post game or it'll open when you get 100%. it's none of that. it's DLC. Killing and biting and maiming and violence and murder

Also the game felt very easy because there's no like power scaling really?? You can get to the area with the highest level monsters very quickly and for the most part it's an optional area and none of the plot areas after that point in time get any stronger. the monsters there are not even really that tough and by the time I realized that if I wanted to do more than just oneshot every enemy in the game I should stop leveling myself up it was too late and I was overpowered for the entire game almost lol 13 and 13-2 are both games that deal a lot with percentages and multipliers so technically you can be just as strong without leveling as you are at max level but like still

I liked catching all the little guys and all the little clothes and accessories you can give them : ) I used a flowering cactuar for my medic most of the time and there was a flowering cactuar accessory that you could put on him so I had a tiny flowering cactuar on top of my flowering cactuar : )

Kind of weird that they don't give you the speed up time ability until you 100% the game because like. what am I supposed to do with it now lol

Excited to go look up the soundtrack and listen to that and illegally download a lot of it

Also it's fucked up that they just straight up killed the moogle at the end what the hell was up with that

I've played 10, 10-2, 12, 13, 13-2, 14, dissidia, dissidia 012, dissidia nt, and world of final fantasy and I think I would put 13 2 kind of somewhere in the upper middle. Not my favorite but still pretty good and worth using half of a 15-year-old Half Price Books gift card I found under the bed 👍🏼

[citizens-reversemortgages]

What is the Maximum Percentage on a Reverse Mortgage?

When considering retirement financial options, many people explore reverse mortgages in California. If you want to tap into your home equity without the burden of monthly mortgage payments, reverse mortgages could be an appealing choice. This article will discuss the maximum percentage you can borrow through a reverse mortgage and what that means for your financial future.

Understanding Reverse Mortgages

Reverse mortgages allow homeowners aged 62 and older to convert part of their home equity into cash. Unlike traditional mortgages, you don’t have to make monthly payments. Instead, the loan balance increases over time as interest accrues. The loan must only be repaid when you sell the home, move out, or pass away.

One of the first questions many people ask is, “What is the maximum percentage of my home’s value that I can access through a reverse mortgage?” The answer can vary based on several factors. Let’s dive deeper into these considerations.

Factors Influencing Maximum Borrowing Amount

Age of the Borrower

One of the most significant factors that affect the maximum percentage you can borrow on a reverse mortgage is your age. Generally, the older you are, the higher the percentage of your home’s equity you can access. For instance, if you are 62, you can access around 40% to 55% of your home's appraised value. As you age, this percentage can increase.

Home Value

The appraised value of your home also dictates how much you can borrow. The higher your home’s value, the more equity you have, which translates to a higher borrowing percentage. For example, if your home is valued at $300,000, and you are eligible for a 50% reverse mortgage, you could potentially access $150,000.

Current Interest Rates

Interest rates are crucial in calculating the maximum amount you can borrow through reverse mortgages. When interest rates are low, the amount available to borrow may increase. Conversely, higher interest rates can reduce the percentage of your home’s equity you can access. It’s essential to monitor market trends when considering your options.

Existing Mortgage and Debts

If you have an existing mortgage, the balance on that loan will affect the amount you can obtain through a reverse mortgage. Generally, reverse mortgages can only pay off your existing mortgage up to a maximum of 60% of the available proceeds if that mortgage is less than a year old. Therefore, if you have a significant existing mortgage, that will limit the cash you can take out.

Types of Reverse Mortgages and Their Limits

Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)

The most common type of reverse mortgage is the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), which is insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). HECM allows you to borrow a certain percentage of your home’s value, typically 40% to 60%, depending on the abovementioned factors.

Proprietary Reverse Mortgages

Proprietary reverse mortgages are private loans that are not federally insured. These loans can sometimes offer higher borrowing limits, particularly for higher-value homes. Depending on the lender, you may be able to access a higher percentage of your home’s value than a HECM.

Single-Purpose Reverse Mortgages

Single-purpose reverse mortgages are offered by some state and local governments and nonprofit organizations. These loans are designed for a specific purpose, such as home repairs or property taxes. They typically have lower costs and requirements, but the maximum percentage you can borrow may be limited compared to HECMs.

Calculating Your Maximum Loan Amount

To illustrate how to calculate the maximum amount you can borrow, let’s consider a hypothetical scenario:

Home Appraised Value: $200,000

Age of the Borrower: 65 years

Loan-to-Value Ratio (LTV): 50%

Maximum Borrowing Amount: $200,000 x 0.50 = $100,000

In this scenario, if you are 65 years old, you could borrow up to $100,000 from your home equity.

Important Considerations

Costs and Fees

While reverse mortgages can provide access to cash, it’s essential to understand the associated costs and fees. These can include origination fees, closing costs, and service fees. Review these expenses carefully to determine how they affect your net cash out.

Long-term Implications

Before proceeding, consider the long-term implications of taking out a reverse mortgage. Remember that while you won't have monthly mortgage payments, the loan balance will grow over time due to accruing interest. This could reduce the inheritance you leave to your heirs or your ability to access cash.

Keeping Your Home

To maintain your reverse mortgage, you must pay property taxes and homeowners insurance and keep the home in good condition. Failing to meet these requirements could jeopardize your reverse mortgage status.

Start Your Reverse Mortgage Journey Today

Reverse mortgages can be a valuable tool for people looking to supplement their retirement income by accessing home equity. Understanding the maximum percentage you can borrow is crucial to making informed financial decisions. By considering factors such as age, home value, interest rates, and existing debts, you can determine the best strategy for your financial future.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you’re interested in exploring reverse mortgage options. Contact Citizens Lending Group, a trusted mortgage lender in Anaheim, California, at (866) 539-5119 for personalized guidance and take the first step toward unlocking the financial resources from your home equity.

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Easy Caclify Reveals 5 Tips for Calculating Your Attendance Percentage

Easy Caclify is an online tool designed to help students calculate their attendance percentage and convert CGPA to percentage quickly and accurately. Whether you're in school, college, or university, Easy Caclify's attendance percentage calculator simplifies the process of tracking your academic performance. With a clean interface and easy input options, you can get instant results without manual effort. It's built to reduce stress, save time, and help you stay on top of your academic goals. Here are 5 tips from Easy Caclify to help you do it right while calculating your attendance percentage.

1. Know your total classes and attended classes

Start with two numbers: the total number of classes held and the number of classes you attended. These are the only figures you need to calculate your attendance. Always keep them updated so you’re not guessing later.

2. Use the basic formula

Attendance percentage = (Classes Attended ÷ Total Classes) × 100 This is the only formula you need. Plug in your numbers and you’ll know exactly where you stand. No apps or tools can help unless you understand this.

3. Be consistent with your records

Keep a notebook or spreadsheet where you write down every class you attend and every one you miss. This helps you avoid confusion, especially over long semesters. If you're depending on your memory, you’ll likely miscount.

4. Plan your leaves based on numbers

Let’s say you’ve attended 40 out of 50 classes. Your attendance is 80%. If the minimum required is 75%, you're safe. But if you skip five more, you drop to 70%. Do this math before missing any class, not after. It’s easier to plan when you know the limits.

5. Use Easy Caclify to double-check

Once you have your numbers, you can put them into Easy Caclify and instantly get your percentage. You can also use it in reverse: enter the percentage you want to achieve and the tool will tell you how many more classes you need to attend. It works both ways and saves time.

Conclusion

Easy Caclify makes it easier for you to stay informed about your academic progress. Whether you're tracking attendance percentage or converting CGPA to percentage, the tool gives you clear and fast results. You don’t have to struggle with manual calculations or guesswork. With just a few inputs, you get accurate data that helps you plan better. For students who want to stay ahead and make smart decisions, Easy Caclify is the simple solution to keep your academic record on track.

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Best Free Tools to Help You Do Better in Competitions

Imagine lining up for a Tradeiators challenge with your demo account primed and charts blinking—then realizing you’re missing the very tools that could help you nail entries, manage risk, and spot momentum before anyone else. From my experience as a trading expert, savvy competitors don’t rely on gut feelings alone; they lean on a suite of free tools to sharpen their edge.

First up, charting platforms like TradingView. Even a free account unlocks multi-timeframe analysis, customizable indicators, and community scripts. You can overlay moving averages and RSI on your candlesticks, then tweak alert triggers so you never miss a breakout. In those fast-paced daily contests, having an alert pop the moment price breaches your level can be the difference between a winning scalp and a missed opportunity.

Next, economic calendars such as the one on ForexFactory. It’s tempting to ignore macro events when you’re stalking intraday moves, but surprise central bank statements or jobs reports can vaporize your unrealized profits. By syncing your contest schedule with major releases—GDP, inflation, nonfarm payrolls—you’ll know exactly when to tighten stops or sit on your hands.

For position sizing and risk calculations, tools like MyFxBook’s position size calculator are indispensable. Input your demo equity, pick your stop-loss distance, and it spits out the precise lot size to cap your risk at, say, 1% per trade. When you’re juggling multiple positions in a trading battle, consistency in risk management keeps your drawdown in check and your ranking steadily climbing.

Don’t overlook sentiment gauges like the IG client sentiment index. It shows the percentage of retail traders long or short a given forex pair. From my observations, extreme readings—say 80% of traders jammed in long—often precede a contrarian move. If everyone’s piled in one direction in a contest, you might find a neat mean reversion scalp.

Lastly, free backtesting utilities embedded in many platforms let you quickly scan your strategy over historical data. You can test a breakout approach or a moving average crossover over the past month’s volatility spikes. That trial-and-error process is how you refine entry filters before the contest bell rings, ensuring you’re not running blind in those high-pressure sessions.

Putting these tools together—TradingView alerts, economic calendars, position size calculators, sentiment gauges, and backtesters—gives you a toolkit that feels almost like having your own research desk. It’s not cheating; it’s smart preparation. With these free resources at your fingertips, your next competition run on Tradeiators might be the one where everything clicks.

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Data Management and Visualization - Module 3

Leave out missing data from the evaluation:

I've created new culomn 'RankOfIncome' for making category for the range of 'incomeperperson':

Ranks:

A: incomeperperson > 10000

B: incomeperperson in 5000 - 10000

C: incomeperperson < 5000

Replace empty cells with category (nan -> 0):

Statistical analysis of variables A, B, C:

Recoding C->A, A->C into a new culomn 'RankOfIncomeReversed':

Statistical analysis of the reversed variables A, C:

I did the same evaluation for 'urbanrate' where I categorized as follows:

urbanrate > 66% : 'A'

urbanrate in 33-66% : 'B'

urbanrate < 33% : 'C'

As 3rd variable I did the same evaluation for 'lifeexpectancy' where I categorized as follows:

lifeexpectancy> 75 : 'A'

lifeexpectancy in 60-75 : 'B'

lifeexpectancy < 60 : 'C'

Summary:

I made evaluation on the income and ranked it to 3 categories. I’ve  categori A a for more than 10,000, B for between 5 and 10,000 and C for less than 5000. I've created similar statistics on urbanrate and lifeexpectancy as described above.

Once I created these variables I could make evaluation on them so I defined the number of the elements which falls into one category and also created the percentage of them.

Next thing I did based on the sample I replaced the categories order (income ) so I replaced A with C so now in the new column A means the less category of the incomes and C means the highest category of the income. Afterwards I’ve calculated the percentage the number of them.

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Thinking Outside the Box: Unconventional Ways to Solve PSLE Math Questions

When it comes to solving PSLE Math questions, the conventional methods often get the job done, but sometimes thinking outside the box can lead to faster and more efficient solutions. The PSLE Maths paper can seem overwhelming, especially when students encounter tricky questions that don’t seem to fit the usual approach. By learning how to approach problems creatively, students can not only improve their problem-solving skills but also develop a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts. In this blog, we’ll explore some unconventional yet effective ways to solve PSLE Math questions and boost your chances of success.

Visualizing Problems with Diagrams

One of the most powerful techniques in solving math problems is visualizing the problem with a diagram. While this may seem like a simple step, many students overlook it. Sketching out a question, especially in geometry or word problems, can give a fresh perspective and help identify relationships between different elements.

Draw to scale: When faced with geometry problems, draw shapes to scale to better understand their dimensions and angles.

Use diagrams in word problems: Visualizing the situation described in the question can make the math more concrete and easier to manipulate.

By using diagrams, students can break down complex problems into simpler, more manageable pieces.

Breaking Down Word Problems

Word problems are often one of the most challenging parts of the PSLE Maths paper. However, many students make the mistake of trying to solve them in one go. Instead, taking the time to break down the information piece by piece can lead to a clearer understanding of the problem.

Identify key information: Underline or highlight important numbers and relationships in the question.

Simplify the scenario: Create a simplified version of the problem, or use smaller numbers to test your understanding before applying it to the full problem.

By breaking down word problems into smaller steps, students can avoid getting overwhelmed and approach the question more strategically.

Using Logical Reasoning and Elimination

In many PSLE Math questions, especially multiple-choice ones, logical reasoning and elimination are powerful tools. Students can often eliminate some answer choices right away, narrowing down the options and increasing their chances of selecting the correct one.

Rule out clearly incorrect answers: If an answer doesn’t make sense based on the question, cross it out.

Look for patterns: Sometimes, looking for patterns in the question or answer choices can lead to the right solution faster.

Logical reasoning allows students to make educated guesses and move closer to the right answer, even if they aren’t entirely sure of the exact solution.

Reverse Engineering the Problem

Another unconventional method for solving PSLE Math questions is reverse engineering. This approach involves working backwards from the answer choices to figure out which one fits the given information. While this method isn’t always applicable, it can be a game-changer when students are stuck.

Start with the answer: If the problem allows, check if one of the answer choices can help lead you back to the original question.

Test answers logically: Substitute each option back into the problem and check for consistency.

Reverse engineering allows students to think in a different way, often leading to quicker solutions when conventional methods feel too time-consuming.

Estimation and Approximation

Estimation is a valuable skill in math, especially when precision isn’t necessary. In many PSLE Math questions, students can use estimation to quickly gauge the possible answer range, which can guide them in selecting the right choice.

Estimate the size of numbers: Round numbers to make mental calculations quicker and easier.

Use approximation for fractions or percentages: When exact numbers aren’t crucial, approximate to narrow down your options.

Estimation helps students avoid overthinking problems and gives them a more intuitive sense of the correct answer.

Making Use of Patterns and Symmetry

Finding patterns and symmetry in math problems can drastically reduce the complexity of a question. Whether it’s recognizing a repeating sequence, identifying symmetry in shapes, or spotting a consistent relationship between numbers, patterns can often offer shortcuts to solutions.

Identify repeated patterns: Look for sequences or repeated steps in the problem that can simplify the calculation.

Use symmetry: In geometry, symmetry can often reveal shortcuts to finding missing angles or dimensions.

Recognizing patterns can help students save time and effort, especially when working with complex math questions.

Thinking of Alternative Methods

Sometimes, there’s more than one way to solve a problem. By thinking creatively, students can find alternative methods to tackle difficult questions. This might involve using a different formula, applying a less commonly used concept, or finding a simpler way to approach a seemingly complicated problem.

Try different formulas: Some questions can be solved using less obvious formulas that students may not have thought to apply.

Use a different approach: If a particular method isn’t working, try another one, like switching between algebraic and geometric methods.

By exploring different angles, students open themselves up to a variety of solutions, which can be especially helpful during an exam.

Conclusion

While conventional methods are important for solving PSLE Maths questions, thinking outside the box can make a big difference. Visualizing problems, breaking down word problems, using logical reasoning, reverse engineering, estimation, recognizing patterns, and exploring alternative methods all offer creative ways to tackle math questions. By adopting these unconventional strategies, students can approach their PSLE Maths paper with greater confidence and flexibility, making the exam feel less intimidating and more manageable. Remember, the key to success is not only mastering the standard techniques but also being open to new ways of thinking and problem-solving.

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Camellia Sinensis to Assist Weight Loss Obesity has become one of the major illnesses in America seeming more on the rise than in regression. Interestingly enough, green tea (Camellia sinensis Xihu Longjing) seems to show a string of successes in reducing obesity (e.g. Lin, 2006). (Incidentally too, green tea may reduce blood lipid levels but this association remains unclear). One such study was conducted by Paradee et al. (2008) on obese Thai. The researchers reasoned that both catechin polyphenols and caffeine "may be effective promoters of thermogenesis and fat oxidation, resulting in the reduction of body weight in Caucasians, Chinese, and Japanese" (25). They wanted to see whether the same effects would hold upon other races and ethnicities and so they therefore studied the effects of obesity-reduction of green tea on Thais. The researchers, therefore, conducted a randomized, controlled trial on a large segment of 60 obese individuals. All the participants partook of a Thai diet that contained the same 3 meals (for 12 weeks, prepared by the Nutritional Unit at Srinagarind Hospital. The diet contained 65% carbohydrates, 15% protein, and 20% fat. Body weight, BMI, body composition, resting energy expenditure, and substrate oxidation were measured at baseline, and during weeks 4, 8, and 12 of the study. Serum levels of leptin and urine were also measured at baseline and during the 12th week. One group was fed green ta, another (the control) was given a placebo. Differences were calculated using two-group ANOVA with repeated measures. In comparing the two groups, differences in weight loss were 2.70, 5.10, and 3.3kg during the 4th, 8th, and 12th weeks of the study, respectively. At the 8th and 12th weeks of the study, however, there was a significant difference in body weight loss whilst there were no significant differences in satiety score, food intake, or physical activity. The researchers concluded that green tea can reduce body weight in obese Thai subjects by increasing energy expenditure and fat oxidation. On the other hand, another study conducted that same year on obese women in Taiwan (Chung-Hua et al., 2008) found no significant differed whatsoever between green-tea group and placebo group. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted from July 2006 to June 2007 in Taipei Hospital, Taiwan. Seventy-eight of 100 obese women aged between 16 and 60 years participated. These participants had not received any weight-control factors within the last 3 months prior to study. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups: Group A and B. Group A (n= 41) received GTE (green teas) while Group B (n= 37) took cellulose as a placebo. They were fed one capsule three times each day for 12 weeks. body weight (BW), body mass index (BMI) and waist circumflex (WC) were measured at the beginning of the study and after 12 weeks of treatment with GTE. Researchers discovered only a 0.3% reduction in BW (0.15 kg) after 12 weeks of treatment with GTE. There was also no statistical difference in reduction in BW, BMI and WC between the two groups. Although studies have shown the reverse, such as an epidemiological human study that showed that consumption of tea for more than 10 years led to a lower percentage of total body fat and smaller waist circumfluence (Wu et al., 2003), Hua et al. (2008) found no results in their 12-week study. This is something to be considered particularly since their sample was rather large and the study meticulously conducted. They also had a control group and made sure that their subjects did not receive other weight-control enablers. Some of these factors (including small samples and studies that were of short duration) were missing from other studies. Given that green tea may have an effect in reducing weight, what is it of their properties that has this outcome? FAS are an important enzyme that is inherent in the energy metabolism. The animal FAS component also has a molecular mass of 270 kDa which consists of synthesis of long-chain fatty acids from acetyl-CoA, malonyl-CoA and NADPH through its seven different domains . It has variously been thought that FAS may be a treatment for obesity. Apparently some FAS inhibitors (such as cerulenin, the ?-methylene-? - butyrolactone C75 (a synthetic inhibitor of FAS) and EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate)) reduce animal weight and inhibit animal appetite (ibid). EGCG and ECG (epicatechin gallate) are two main components of great tea and both of these are derivatives of FAS, which may lead us to conclude that green tea itself, may have obesity-inhibiting features. Various studies have been conducted on this; none have been conclusive. One of the most recent studies was that conducted by Zhang et al. (2006) where they treated and analyzed an extraction of green tea leaves. Their analysis was mainly focused on discovering the mechanisms by which green tea may -- if correct -- inhibitory of obesity. They proposed that inhibitor was achieved by two isomers called CG and ECG, and that contrary to previous speculation some new potent FAS inhibitor(s) may be formed during the isolation processes of the green tea. Apparently too the GTE (green tea extract) is more potent in inhibiting the FAS than the other two known inhibitors in green tea leaves, EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) and ECG (epicatechin gallate). The researchers found too that (?)-CG (catechin gallate) was a potent inhibitor of FAS possibly explaining the contribution of GTE. In a previous study, Ngao et al. (2005) had attributed the effects to Catechins, the major component of green tea extract. These catechins are epigallocatechin gallate (ECGS) which have been associated with obesity-reducing factors. The researchers reported that: A portion of ingested EGCg is absorbed and widely distributed throughout the body. The ingestion of tea extract or catechins induces antioxidant, antiviral, antiplaque-forming, and anticancer activities, as well as decreases in blood pressure and blood sugar. Lipid metabolism studies in animals, tissues, and cells have found that tea extract and catechins reduce triacylglycerol and total cholesterol concentrations, inhibit hepatic and body fat accumulation, and stimulate thermogenesis (18). In order to test their hypothesis that this catechin was a factor in obesity-reduction, the researchers conducted a double controlled study of a 2-week diet run-in period, where 38 healthy Japanese men were divided into 2 groups with similar BMI and waist circumference distributions. A 12-week double-blind study was performed where the participants of experimental group drank 1 bottle oolong tea containing 690 mg catechins whist the control group drank 1 bottle oolong tea containing 22 mg catechin. The researchers discovered that the body weight, BMI, waist circumference, body fat mass, and subcutaneous fat area were all significantly lower in the green tea extract group than in the control group and that changes in the concentrations of malondialdehyde-modified LDL were positively associated with changes in body fat mass and total fat area in the green tea extract group. The researchers thereupon concluded that catechin may be a key mechanism, for inhibiting obesity and it was this factor that produced the efficacy evident in green tea. This corresponds with research of Zhang et al. (2006) who indicated too that (?)-CG (catechin gallate) was a potent inhibitor of FAS. Catechist too may be helpful due to the fact that catecholamines in the brain may play a major role in satiety . Conclusions A long-range of studies have concluded that green tea has obesity-reducing effects. Chung-Hua et al. (2008) however concluded otherwise indicating no effect through their double blind controlled study on 100 obese women. Nonetheless, most studies seem to show an impact. Properties of green tea that may be responsible for this FAS-inhibiting outcome have been variously said to be the (?)-CG (catechin gallate) that is a compound of the GTE (green tea extract). If green tea does indeed have this affect that would be a huge discovery. Further studies however need to be conducted in order to verify this hypothesis. These studies need to be experimental in the fullest sense conducted also on large samples of people within a sufficiently large enough period of time and on participants who have received no other weight-control. With these and other controls implemented, we can further test the theory of whether or not green tea has a preventive effect in controlling obesity. References Murase, T., Nagasawa, A., Suzuki, J., Hase, T. And Tokimitsu, I. (2002) Beneficial effects of tea catechins on diet-induced obesity: stimulation of lipid catabolism in the liver Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Disord. 26, 1459 -- 1464 Nagao, T et al. (2005) Ingestion of a tea rich in catechins leads to a reduction in body fat and malondialdehyde-modified LDL in men Am J. 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