home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!iago.caltech.edu!lmh
- From: lmh@iago.caltech.edu (Henling, Lawrence M.)
- Newsgroups: rec.collecting
- Subject: Re: COINS:Novice question about coins as investments
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:44 PDT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
- Lines: 22
- Distribution: usa
- Message-ID: <22JAN199317441683@iago.caltech.edu>
- References: <C0pxo3.Ht6@well.sf.ca.us> <1993Jan13.035825.23805@news.nd.edu> <1j4m4a$dqs@agate.berkeley.edu> <1jhn4r$627@agate.berkeley.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: iago.caltech.edu
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
-
- In article <1jhn4r$627@agate.berkeley.edu>, you write...
- >|> 2) it is not possible to depreciate > 100%; if you are talking about U.S.
- >|> coins, at the worst, you have face value as a bottom. Coins can, and do
- >|> appreciate > 300%; but will never depreciate to that extent. (Do you mean
- >
- >Forgive me for not being an ace mathemetician, Jack. When I say "depreciates
- >300%" I would hope that the non-critical reader would take that to mean "a
- >coin which once bid at $300 now only bids at $100". If your intent was to
- >render a math lesson, then I thank you for setting me straight. Otherwise,
- >I'd recommend you find another vehicle for flaming those whom you don't
- >even know...
- >
- I didn't think this was a flame, but rather an important correction.
- People have enough difficulty communicating without adding the further
- complication of unclear and misleading writing.
- The statement above is obviously wrong but it is too much to expect the
- reader to try to figure out what the author really meant.
- Look up the definitions of 'biweekly', 'bimonthly' and 'biannual' in a
- modern dictionary and you will see what happens when people routinely
- use words improperly - the words become meaningless.
-
- larry henling lmh@shakes.caltech.edu
-