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Just saw your earlier comment, thank you!

1) Yep, the regular percentage formula is pretty basic. Mostly, I like it because we've overlooked something that's been under our noses for years or decades. What else have we been missing?

2) For trig, check out:

http://betterexplained.com/static/articles/intuitive-trigono...

The traditional way of showing sine/cosine/tan (as on that page) leaves out the surrounding context where the percentage comes to life. Let me know if that link above clears thins up.




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