You are correct. The reason is that in trade you have to use the legal definitions, not the mathmatical definitions.
Marshall Acmeair wrote: > if i remember correctly, when it comes to purity of metals, you can round > down but not up. silver that assays out at 99.96 is three nines, not four > nines. and as someone mentioned here, 99.9 silver is usually 99.96 or so. > not absolutely positive, but do believe this to be correct. > > jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "silversurfer1952 ." <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:34 PM > Subject: Re: CS>Re: 99.9 silver > > > Hi Rich, > > > > In math, when you "round off" decimals you would write 99.85 (for example) > > as 99.9 But, 99.84 would be rounded off to 99.8 > > > > Rounding off is not used for accuracy, however. I found this link for > > you... http://www.math.com/school/subject1/lessons/S1U1L3GL.html > > > > Elle > > > > > > >From: "Rich Adams" <[email protected]> > > > > > >I don't think 99.9 can be "technically" 99.85 at anytime in math. > > > > > >Maybe in other stuff. > > > > > >Respectfully, > > >Rich Adams > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Send a QuickGreet with MSN Messenger > > http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_games > > > > > > -- > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
