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Docs for scale
Issue description
The documentation of scale says:
"For example, the function call scale(2.0) increases the dimension of a shape by 200%."
This is unfortunately a mistake. Let's say the unit of the x-axis before the scaling is 10, then after it is 2*10=20. The growth is 20-10=10. Which amounts to 100%.
Scaling with s gives in general a growth of s-1.
Now it not just the sentence above that needs a change: the parameters s, x and y are described as "percentages". This should be changed to "scalar" or "factor" or similar.
URL(s) of affected page(s)
https://processing.org/reference/scale_.html