if i remember correctly, when it comes to purity of metals, you can round down but not up. silver that assays out at 99.96 is three nines, not four nines. and as someone mentioned here, 99.9 silver is usually 99.96 or so. not absolutely positive, but do believe this to be correct.
jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "silversurfer1952 ." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: Re: CS>Re: 99.9 silver > Hi Rich, > > In math, when you "round off" decimals you would write 99.85 (for example) > as 99.9 But, 99.84 would be rounded off to 99.8 > > Rounding off is not used for accuracy, however. I found this link for > you... http://www.math.com/school/subject1/lessons/S1U1L3GL.html > > Elle > > > >From: "Rich Adams" <[email protected]> > > > >I don't think 99.9 can be "technically" 99.85 at anytime in math. > > > >Maybe in other stuff. > > > >Respectfully, > >Rich Adams > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send a QuickGreet with MSN Messenger > http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_games > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
