On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Tony B <ton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah. So a 2% increase in share is a 25% increase in your fantasy world? > Okay. I can _almost_ accept that twisted math, except if the whole pie > is 10 instead of 100, then 2 is only 20% of it, not 25%. That 2 is 1/4 > of 8 means nothing, because you cannot define the whole market as > being 8 percent.
He defined Apples share of the market as 8% of the whole market increasing to 10% of the whole market which is a 25% increase in Apples share of the whole market. Simpler example: Steve and John have ten dollars between them. John has $1 and Steve has $9.00 in quarters in his pocket for laundry. Steve drops a quarter and John picks it up. John now has $1.25 which is a 25% increase in his available cash and 12.5% of all the cash. Steve has 97.2% of what he had and 88.75% of the cash. > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Tom Piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > >>No, that part is pure fantasy. Talk about misinterpreting! > > > > So you are bad at math too? > > > > 8 --> 10 is a 25% increase. 2 is 25% of 8. 8 + 2 = 10. > > > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
