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To: Tony McFadden who wrote (25988)	12/29/2002 12:20:05 PM
From: lifeisgood	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 62567

The engineer would say it's 100% too large, not 50%, since the half NOT full is 100% of the half that IS full... That is incorrect. Since the quote was referring to the whole glass, it cannot be 100% too large as reducing it by that amount would result in 0. Your mistake is in looking only at the portion of the glass that is filled (1/2 of the glass) and the fact that it would have to increase by 100% to be full. the quote: The engineer says the glass is 50% too large. refers to the whole glass not the 50% that is filled. Thus the original quote was correct and you are in error (and obviously not an engineer). best... LIG P.S. Here is another mind bender question. Is it possible for a baseball to travel further backwards after it has been ticked by the bat than it could travel had it not been ticked by the bat?