>>OK, I see this is pointless, so I'd rather abuse your attention (hey, you already paid it - so why let it go to waste!) and ask two seemingly relevant question about stock market:
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>>1) what's the point? I mean, when they say "NASDAQ has gone down two points", how much of what is that, actually? What's one point?
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>>2) when it goes up "two tenths of one percent", how do I know which percent was that? There's a hundred of them. And how do I know if that percent is really the one - maybe someone substituted another one. Who would notice?
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>Why do you ask such pointed questions?

Because this is the USA, where all these numbers have decimal points. If we were in Europe, they'd have a decimal comma, and I'd then ask commatose questions.