From: "Tim" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Like the Pig/Tattie but Bread instead
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:03:50 +0000 (UTC)

> "Tim" wrote:
> > If it were "100% thinner", then it would have *zero* thickness!
>

"Ronald Raygun" wrote
> Don't be so thick.
>
> For every measurable quantity Q,
> if A is 100% Q-er than B, it means that A is twice as Q as B.

Rubbish.  Suppose Q has "thickness",
say, 100.0 (units are irrelevant, this is just
to give it a number - any number will do!).

Now if A is "100% thinner" than Q, then A
is 100% x 100.0 = 100.0 less "thick", and
so the "thickness" of A is therefore *zero*.
[100.0 - 100.0 = 0.0.]
Even Troy can see that!

"Ronald Raygun" wrote
> So if X is 100% thinner than Y, then X is twice as thin as Y.

That doesn't follow!
BTW - what are you trying to take 100% of?

"Ronald Raygun" wrote
> For bread, crusty or not, if one loaf
> is sliced twice as thinly as another, it
> simply means it has twice as many slices.

Yes, and if two slices were taken from either
loaf then a single sandwich could be made -
it's just that the sandwich from the "thicker"
loaf would have twice as much bread in it...