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To: RobFromGa

As a mathematician, your use of percentages with ordinal numbers offends me. If I am ranked #2, and you are ranked #1, it does not imply that I am two times worse than you are, or that you are 50% better.

A move from 7 to 14 is a 100% move, not a 200% move (14 - 7)/7 = 1 or 100%. But of course, you can't do that with ordinal numbers because the fact that Boortz is now at 14 does not mean his sales or his books popularity have fallen 100%.


12 posted on 05/27/2006 5:24:41 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo ("Give a man a fish, make him a Democrat. Teach a man to fish, make him a Republican.")
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To: Thane_Banquo

Still not correct. If he had a 100% drop in sales that would be zero book sales.

When your sales are rising you can have greater than 100% sales, but on the way down you can't go above 100% and the only way to hit 100% drop in sales would be to hit zero sales.


18 posted on 05/27/2006 5:30:13 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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