<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Also remember that you're used to thinking of percentages as a fraction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of the starting value, whereas chazal more often speak in terms of a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">fraction of the larger value (milevar).>></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I have no problem with the 1/6 being a fraction of the starting or final value. What confuses me it that the SA seems to be using both simultaneously. That is onaah is raising (or lowering) the price by exactly 1/6 of EITHER the starting or final values<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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