NNN Column - Ratiocination

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Ratiocination

A column devoted to ratios in all their guises: indices, coefficients, percentages, rates, scales, conversions, etc. Ratios are comparisons between the relative size of two quantities, a simple idea which – surprisingly – underlies much of the way we use numbers to communicate.

• Social Security and the "Celtic Tiger" - 8/14/08
• Planck's Constant: Motion and Rest - 10/1/08
• The Full Monty... in Proportion - 1/16/09
• Dividend Yielding PE Ratios - 6/30/09
• Fertile Myrtle and the Most Important Statistic...In the World! - 9/15/09