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But that is exactly what wedrifid did, only consciously so. He didn't want to expend the cognitive effort to find the value on a finer-grained scale, so he used a scale with granularity 1%. He knew he couldn't assign 100%, so the only value to pick was 99%. This is how we use numbers all the time, except in certain scientific contexts where we have the rules about significant figures, which behave slightly differently.
With the approximately already being present, Wedifrid might as well have used ~100%. 100% is not a valid probability, but it is really close to valid probabilities.
Indeed. There are several conceivable and sensible correspondence rules between the scales of various granularity; he probably generalized the rule that you're never allowed to assign 100% and 0% to anything and worked with that.