percentages used as click-bait...
-How's the business?
-Great! We've had a 100% increase in visitors in a single day!
-Amazing, how many visitors today?
-two!
-How's the business?
-Great! We've had a 100% increase in visitors in a single day!
-Amazing, how many visitors today?
-two!
Here, the price of gas has gone up by 6,000%. That's a lot! Except that in absolute terms, the price has gone from $0.02/gallon to $0.11/gallon. I can see larger fluctuations than that just by crossing the street in many places.
They are fundamentally different dimensions, because a transaction value goes from negative infinite to positive infinite (from a specific point of view), and in it, zero is just a specific point in the scale (that could be moved by fees or other debts to be netted against); whereas number of visitors can't go negative, and in such a scale zero is absolute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_scale). This makes the comparison dangerous.
But it seems that pointing that deserves downvotes...
...It looks like you are missing a factor of 10. 6000% is 60x, so as near as I can tell gas was $0.002 per gallon, and now is rising to $0.11 per gallon.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-17/venezuela-...