If we want to know how much our returns on an investment in Squirrel-to-English translators have grown since we first invested in 2015 (those returns haven't grown much, sadly), then our base year for determining the growth is 2015. The base year is just the starting year that we use when we want to calculate some trend over a period of years.
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