Concurrent = multiple things happening at the same time
Cumulative = amount of stuff added up over time
Concurrent: at the same time - if you eat two cookies at the same time you’re eating them concurrently. Cumulative: accumulating/growing over time - If you eat a cookie now and eat a cookie later you’ve cumulatively eaten 2 cookies. Bonus points: wouldn’t it have been a lot easier to google ‘define:<word>’ than to make a post here to get other people to answer for you? You’d get the answer a lot quicker the other way, too.
With regards to prison sentences?
Sentences served concurrently are served at the same time. If someone was found guilty of 3 different crimes, and was sentenced to 1, 3 and 5 years in prison for them, and they were to be served concurrently, they’d be in prison for a total of 5 years.
Cumulative (or consecutive, depending on where you’re from) sentences are served one after another, so in the above example, they’d be in prison for a total of 9 years.
It’s also possible for (for example) the 1 and 3 year sentences to be served cumulatively, and the 5 year to be served concurrently (in which case the total would be 8 years).
Not in regards to prison sentences, just in general
It is the same thing but with less prison time.
It’s also possible for (for example) the 1 and 3 year sentences to be served cumulatively, and the 5 year to be served concurrently (in which case the total would be 8 years).
Wouldn’t that still be 9 years? 1 and 3 are cumulative, giving a 4 year sentence, and the 5 years is concurrent with that. 4 & 5 concurrent makes 5.
To get 8, wouldn’t you want the 3 and 5 served consecutively with the 1 year being concurrent?
Yep, you’re right. Confused myself with all the cumulative vs consecutive vs concurrent jabber.
Edit: I typed out two sets of the same numbers, one in a row, intonating one after the other, and the others in a column in an attempt to impart the idea of all at once.
My Lemmy client put both on single lines, which is confusing. So I removed the original comment.
If you want to start a new line, you can either type three spaces at the end of the line or a backslash. I think it should work on all clients, but I’m not sure.
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