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Gross is the total figure before anything is taken out; net is what remains after a deduction, which is VAT in the case of prices and tax in the case of pay.
↳ A question people actually ask, with a straight answer. How do week numbers work?ISO week numbers label complete Monday-to-Sunday weeks, so the week-year does not always change on New Year’s Day.
↳ A question people actually ask, with a straight answer. Natural English equivalent of the Ukrainian phrase "one thing doesn't interfere with the other"?A natural English equivalent is “one doesn’t stop the other”, or more formally, “they’re not mutually exclusive.
↳ A question people actually ask, with a straight answer. Why AI struggles to count letters in a wordA concrete, repeatable failure that reveals how models see text: not as letters but as tokens — so "how many r’s in strawberry" trips them up.
↳ A worked example with real numbers — no hand-waving. How to calculate percentagesThe three questions every percentage problem reduces to, and how to answer each one without a formula sheet.
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