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					Originally Posted by  spence
					 
				 
				Now I may not be that good at math, but since when does 2.7/3.8=40% ??? 
 
And that's just a prerequisite to the numerous other misleading elements of your pies. 
 
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You work in finance?  Seriously?
Spence, if you want to know the increase between a and b, the formula is
(b / a) -1.
In this case, 3.8 / 2.7 - 1 = 41%.  So no, you are apparently not that good at math, at least when the math makes your hero look like an incompetent idiot.    
"And that's just a prerequisite to the numerous other misleading elements of your pies."
Your 'prerequisite' is demonstrably, irrefutably, mathematically false.  So given that your prerequisite was 100% wrong, it stands to reason that any other "misleading elements" you discovered, which are based on that prerequisite, would also be wrong.
Spence, do you concede that 3.8 is indeed 40% more than 2.7?  That's fact, that's not some myth invented by #^^^^& Cheney or the Koch Brothers or Glenn Beck or some other conservative boogeyman invented by your side, in the attempt to distract people from things like simple arithmetic.