99.44% pure

[Dave Wilton]

Yup, Wilton's Law: If I include a mathematical calculation in an email or
internet posting, I will get the arithmetic wrong.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net

-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Chris F Waigl
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 1:25 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: 99.44% pure

Dave Wilton wrote:

> As for Ivory Soap, a 0.66% impurity content (parts per thousand) would be
> trivially easy to directly measure. My question was always 99.44% pure
what?
>

Whatever it is, it must be a substance for which 100.1% make a whole.

Chris Waigl
(scnr)

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