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So... how do you reduce something like people crossing a border beyond one hundred percent ?
People trying to get out of the country, I guess
I thought of this one but a deportation or just leaving aren't illegal crossings.... So it wouldn't work!
And trying to get out of the country crossing illegally is still an illegal crossing, so, it doesn't make sense
They're crossing on the opposite direction now
And bringing additional people with them!
I also considered this one, illegally crossing in the opposite direction is still illegally crossing, so, it doesn't explain the math
For some reason, people will sometimes flip the fraction when calculating decreasing percentages, so this roughly means that the old number of crossings is beyond one hundred percent greater than the current number of border crossings. It's really dumb
Ohhhhhh omg now this makes sense. Thank you!
Deportations
Hint: math