>>>>>There is a race. Participants A and B.
>>>>>A finishes in 29 minutes
>>>>>B finishes in 35 minutes
>>>>>
>>>>>A is 6 minutes faster than B.
>>>>>B is 6 minutes slower than B.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is A 17% or 21% faster than B?
>>>>>Is B 17% or 21% slower than A?
>>>>>
>>>>>Title says it all, darn percentages :)
>>>>
>>>>I do not think that it is because you are from Wisconsin.
>>>>It is how they teached you in the elementary school. Poor America.
>>>
>>>He is a transplant, not a native Wisconsite. I believe he came here as an adult. He is from Norway, not Wisconsin :o) Poor Norway??? :o)
>>
>>It happened in Wisconsin, not in Norway. Programmers who do not know elementary math, is it ok?
>>My disappoint and frustration came from all the discussions here yesterday (Letter from a Dodge Dealer)
>>The majority of people in USA stop to understand how to work with numbers, how to maintain their balances, how to organize their own life. And for some reason they believe that so-called "new leadership" may help them.
>>What you can do for the country if you cannot do neccesary things for yourself?
>
>But the person was born and educated in Norway, not Wisconsin.
>
>You cannot generalize that Americans cannot manage their own finances or organize their own life. It is not universal.


Sure my derivation come from what I can see in USA today, not from the one particular fact; this fact was just a last drop that prompted me to reply yesterday late evening.