<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>If I may take the liberty to clarify, I believe what he means is that "4" is a number, whereas "%" is a method of getting AT a number.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>as in a previous example, would you really accept a salary of '4' or of '4%' without knowing 4 WHAT or 4% of WHAT?</DIV><DIV>as you may have learned by 6th grade math, points off for failing to include units or other indications of specificity.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 29, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Art wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Geneva">If it's a pure number, it's a pure number.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A percentage is not a pure number.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Geneva; min-height: 12.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Geneva">And what, pray tell, is a "pure number"?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>