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To: kas1 who wrote (1434)	12/6/1997 9:22:00 PM
From: Bill Martin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2389

... most stock quote sites have semilog sites, and semilog leads to an under-appreciation of historical corrections in this stock. Actually you want semilog scales in order to fully appreciate declines in historical context -- that's their purpose. With semilog a 1" dip on the chart always corresponds to the same percentage decline in price regardless of where the drop occurs. With linear scales a 1" drop might correspond to an 80% price drop near the bottom of the chart and a 5% decline near the top of the chart. One opinion .... Bill