<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>yep..works for me..that, and hanging onto my copy of the Panther Calculator.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 27, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Neil wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">OK, I give up.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It looks like some people will just always insist that</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">percentages are numbers rather than ratios.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>15% is a ratio, .15 is a tool</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">we use to calculate the value of 15%.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Both are meaningless without an</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">operand.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You can refuse to accept it, and we will just move on.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>