Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

[Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:33:12PM -0400, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote:
 
> However, the poster above could be correct that someone should be paying 
> him if a price drops by 2000-fold. We are not dealing with Zeno's 
> paradox because of the order of operations and that "fold" can mean 
> multiply or divide.  The final operation is is to "drop" or subtraction. 
>  So it is not recursive and is either by one two-thousandth or 200,000 
> percent.

Actually, if "fold" here means "divide in half" (which is how I interpret
it) 2000-fold would be 1/2 to the 2,000 power.  Which is a very small price
indeed.
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Carl Fink                                         carl@fink.to
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