# Poll percentage inaccuracy!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-percentage-inaccuracy/384254>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** polls\
**Created:** [September 29, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-percentage-inaccuracy/384254 "2025-09-29T08:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poll-percentage-inaccuracy/384254/2 "2025-09-29T09:53:05Z")

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I think the most likely reason this could be happening is that 100% cannot be divided by 3, and will give 33.333333333…%. So it has 2 33%s (66% altogether), and 34% as the last one.

Also yes, it is here on Meta too.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/9/4/f94c52271ee06c957cf527cf5a1b598212d40644.png)

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