What's so Dinky about the Dinky?

[mhalsey]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

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BTW, Newc, love the sig!

[rps14a]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

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Technically, it's 87.5 %

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yep

[DumpyWumpy]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

Newc, you're very wrong...

if 4/8 = 50%, which it clearly does, then your logic states that 5/8=60%, 7/8=70% and 8/8=80%....

REAL math shows that...

(7 divided by 8) multiplied by 100% = 87.5% [img]/images/graemlins/eviltongue.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

Actually, 6/8 would equal 80% in my world, because it's only 2/8 from 8/8, and 20 from 100 is 80. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

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I thought the KV neck was thinner?Anyhoo, NOTP has it right - the Dinky and Soloist are 90% (7/8ths) smaller than a Strat body.

[/ QUOTE ]If they were 90% SMALLER than a Strat, or 7/8 SMALLER, than they'd only be 10% or 1/8 the size of a Strat, or about 3.9 inches long! [img]/images/graemlins/nono.gif[/img] Setting aside the conversion error of 1/8 being 10% (1/8 is really 12/5%) you really meant that a Dinky or Soloist body is 7/8 AS BIG as a Strat, or 1/8 (12.5%) SMALLER than an actual Strat body. 100 divided by 8 = 12.5, so 1/8 = 12.5%, 2/8 = 25.0%, 3/8 = 37.5%, 4/8 = 50.0%, 5/8 = 62.5%, 6/8 = 75.0%, 7/8 = 87.5%, and 8/8 =100.0%.

[Shotgun]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

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I thought the KV neck was thinner?Anyhoo, NOTP has it right - the Dinky and Soloist are 90% (7/8ths) smaller than a Strat body.

[/ QUOTE ]If they were 90% SMALLER than a Strat, or 7/8 SMALLER, than they'd only be 10% or 1/8 the size of a Strat, or about 3.9 inches long!

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THAT'S the one I was waiting for! [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[rps14a]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

ah, come on that was just a little sentence construction error. i really would like to know where that math came from though!

[VitaminG]

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(1/8 is really 12/5%)

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one eighth is really twelve fifths of a percent? [img]/images/graemlins/what.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

HAH! He got ya on THAT one, College Boy! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

And that Math formula is the by-product of imaginitive thinking, which is why I got high scores in Writing and Composition, but low scores in Math [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
"If you don't know the answer, just bullsh1t" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

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(1/8 is really 12/5%)

[/ QUOTE ]one eighth is really twelve fifths of a percent? [img]/images/graemlins/what.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ]Sorry, for the typo; it's 12.5% of course. Guess that's God getting me for poking at Newc about the 90% smaller thing... DOH! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

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HAH! He got ya on THAT one, College Boy! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]And that Math formula is the by-product of imaginitive thinking, which is why I got high scores in Writing and Composition, but low scores in Math [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]"If you don't know the answer, just bullsh1t" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ]College boy? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] I learned to convert fractions to percentages in 5th grade! I did go to college but stuck with liberal arts just to avoid math classes! I never thought I'd use these skills on the JCF to discuss the dimensions of the Dinky though! But having lived in River Ridge for half of 1975, I do have some idea of the New Orleans approach of creating your own doctrine on any subject. Hey, it's Mardi Gras time! [img]/images/graemlins/band.gif[/img]

[noodlesatf]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

When in doubt, use a calculator. But does it really matter? It's smaller than a Strat, leave it at that.

[Ricey]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

So basically, both the Dinky and the Soloist are "dinky". Which came first, the chicken or the... er, I mean the Dinky or the Soloist.

[pinto79]

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So basically, both the Dinky and the Soloist are "dinky". Which came first, the chicken or the... er, I mean the Dinky or the Soloist.

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The Soloist.

[Newc]

Re: What\'s so Dinky about the Dinky?

The actual term came first, but IIRC Lynch's Charvel Strats were originally 7/8 size because he was such a wee lad [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]