<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Again, we're distinguishing between a mathmatical procedure and a Calculator behavior.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"+15%" is, by convention, an accepted, implemented and utilized method of finding out the result of making a number X-percent larger.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But yes, your understand of percent seems to be pretty solid.</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 28, 2005, at 12:04 PM, John Baltutis 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">If you want to make a number, say x, fifteen percent bigger, then the</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">appropriate mathematical function is: x * 1.15, not x + 15%.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>