After buying an EV, less than 1% of drivers go back to gas-powered cars
After buying an EV, less than 1% of drivers go back to gas-powered cars
Once you go electric, you almost never go back to a gas-powered car. According to a new survey from the...
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Tell that to all the math textbooks that say “greater than > or less than <”.
Most of the time, math textbooks are dealing with real numbers (continuous quantities), for which that verbiage is appropriate.
Are percentages not continuous quantities? In this case, they represent ratio of discrete values, but we don't know what those are.
No need to try to enforce a prescriptive distinction between “less” and “fewer” when “less” is often used with count nouns. They can be interchangeable, and it’s been this way for hundreds of years.
"fewer drivers", but it could technically be "less than 1%" , as the number before % is just a real number, so of a continuous spectrum.
it can be less than π% of drivers.
Fewer is not appropriate here if maintaining the common use of fewer.
