In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
10/13/2006
at 09:44 AM, Matt Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Statements like this always confuse me.
Why? They should tell you something about the author.
>How can something be 37 times
>(or 3700%) smaller or cheaper than something else?
They can't.
>If saying "37 times cheaper" is intended to mean it costs 1/37 (or
>approximately 2.7%), then wouldn't it really be about 97.3% cheaper?
Yes.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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