RE: Dual Monitors [WAS: RE: Approach and estimation foracleanup/conversion product - Word docs to FM and OLH]

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

OMG! I _did_ start a math kerfuffle! :-o 

Fred Ridder wrote:

> But that's what Peter said, because .0144 (your number) equals 1.44%
(his
> number).

Sloppy reading on my part -- missed that percent sign at the end. 
 
> But his reasoning is wrong, because to calculate the result of a 12%
> increase on top of a 12% increase, you don't multiply the increase
> percentages (12%). You multiply the *increased quantities* (112%). So
it
> would be 1.12 x 1.12 =  1.2544 = 125.44%

Fred is right, as usual. On both counts. 

I'll just use my Emily Litella voice to say "never mind" and slink off
to lunch. 


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