The question was well crafted. It behooves on part of the respondent to understand the question or clarify before answering.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Ian Tickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Agreed - but it wasn't entirely clear from the original question that > this was the purpose of the calculation. Assuming that is the case then > it surely behoves subscribers as far as possible to ask the right > questions, or at least explain their reasons for needing to perform the > calculation: it should not be assumed that others will understand what > you meant to say, as opposed to what you did say! > >