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[Ronald Butters]

On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> I'm aware of the math, Dan. I'm just saying it's irrelevant.
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>    VS-)
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> On 3/7/2012 1:02 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>> The 50% comes in when you look at the results that have an impact on the calculation of "net negative". The 79% in your example clearly don't matter; only 21% do, and more than half of the 21% were negative.
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>> DanG
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