See, a percent _can_ stand on it's own. You have to use the "of" to have the effect you're discussing On Nov 27, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Michael Elliott wrote: > Again...we'll never agree on this one. > > I agree that you have to have a percent of SOMETHING, that the > percent doesn't stand on its own. So by the reasoning below. > 24839% of 10,000,000 is...248.39? ;-) > > Michael > > > On Nov 27, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Aron Spencer wrote: > >> 24839% = 248.39 > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 Aron S. Spencer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20051127/8e6532d9/attachment.html