300% decline

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/22/2009 05:34 PM, Victor wrote:
>1) The person performing the calculations might have reversed the
>referent quantity, taking the final value as 100% instead of the
>initial. So the actual decline would have been 75%.

This is the simple-minded [sic] calculation I would assume, hearing
of a 300% decline.

Joel

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