Light loss through glass canopy

which is an even stronger example that glass tops do not effect the light penetration

Look at pie if you cut it into 700 slices and you take 1 slice there are 699 slices left.
If I cut my pie into 7 slices and take one I have 6 slices left.....Who ate more? I did

 

Yes, yes it would. That would still make it 1/7th of one percent.

(1/7) / 100 = 1/700

However, the site doesn't show those same numbers.

 

No No 1/7th is greater than 1/700th!

 

I was thinking that also, just meaning a very, very small loss.

 

1/7th is definitely greater than 1/700. It's also much greater than 1/7th of one percent. That's 1 / 7 / 100.

If I took a pizza, and I cut it into 7 blocks, then I took each of the 7 blocks and cut them into 100 slices each, you still got 1 slice out of 700; there's just two separate cuttings instead of one.

 

So what are you trying to say Raven.....1/700th is the same as 1/7th?

 

He's saying 1/700 th is the same as 1/7 %

 

This. I think you had the impression I originally said 1/7th, which I did not. I said 1/7th of a percent, which means 1/7/100, which means 1/700.

 

Ok so here is my pizza pie:
now take your pizza pie and slice it into 700 slices.
we are both starving.....
I eat 1 slice of my pie and you eat 1 slice of your pie.

whos pizza pie has more pizza? yours...so if the loss of light is 1/700 that is a lot less loss than 1/7th
no need to convert fractions to percentages...

 

I took my own PAR tests a while back, and the simple removal of the glass on one of my pendants made the PAR go up by a pretty large amount.

Off the top of my head I don't recall the numbers, but it was a lot more than 1. I think it was around 20% lower with the glass, with no other changes. I will have to get my PAR number chart finished and put it up on 3reef.