http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
