Am i missing the joke? ChatGPT tells me 3% of 100 is 3, not 0.18.

When I first read it I thought wait, 3% of 6 is 0.18, but then I realized no I'm a dork because 6 is the age of the kid, whereas the number 100 is written as a word hundred, hence I decided to write "HN poster responds:" with quotes around my first non-coffee aided thought because I thought it was funny. I guess I should have just made that full statement, but I do have a tendency to rather oblique communication strategies.

on edit: basically because I thought hah, this is the kind of mistake I always see poor tired folks make on HN and making the dumb comment and here I am making it!! This is a classic moment!

I gave your reply the most generous interpretation and read it in the ironic way as you point out in the edit

thanks!

.18 is 3% of 6. This might mean something, but I don't know what.

10 months out of six years is 0.14 so it isn't quite prenatal benefits.

What happens if an unborn baby has rights to go to preschool, but the birthing parent can't?

Is an unborn child a US citizen yet?

the next number in the sequence 3, 6, 18 is 72, but I doubt it means anything.

>ChatGPT tells me 3% of 100 is 3

Sweet baby Jesus in his high chair.

Whatever happened to just firing up a calculator app that's already on the device you were using? Or bashing "100/3" into the search box in your OS or browser?

Do you ask ChatGPT how long to cook spaghetti instead of reading it off the package you just took the spaghetti out of? Honest question.

Off topic: what are you trying to signal by saying chatgpt helped you with arithmetic here?

Is it supposed to give more weight to what you are saying?

I read it as a side joke about how people overuse chtgpt for trivial tasks

I hope that's the case!

> ChatGPT tells me 3% of 100 is 3,

FYI: % (percent) literally means "out of a hundred".

I think the joke is people trying to figure out why 0.18. I, personally, enjoy it.

You’re missing something if you asked ChatGPT that.

No, they have their irony fully deployed, not missing anything.

Hard to be sure on HN

nah, it just means you get 18% of childcare costs paid.