On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> But of you have ten buns and one guest takes two and the other takes three, > one has ten percent more than the other. Nope. One has 50% more than the other. I don't have the NYT Manual of Style and Usage, but the Google Books search reveals enough to be clear: "Do not confuse percent and percentage point: If an interest rate rises to 11 percent from 10 percent, the increase is one percentage point, but 10 percent." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
