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by beatthegmat » Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:07 am
Thanks guys. I'm having my team investigate these issues on IE right now, I hope we can resolve quickly!
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by mbasubrosa » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:56 pm
epic flashcards! interesting to see them being downloaded even after 5 years :D! evergreen I say.
thanks Eric.
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by beatthegmat » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:57 pm
mbasubrosa wrote:epic flashcards! interesting to see them being downloaded even after 5 years :D! evergreen I say.
thanks Eric.
Glad you liked them! These flashcards were a passion project. :)
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by vevikg » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:02 pm
On Flashcards - Pg 14 - on examples of "Less", I am confused.

1) "..less than 35 mi...". Aren't 0 to 34 miles countable, so we should use "fewer' instead of less.

2)"..spent less than $100" Anything between $0 and $100 is countable.

3) "..town spent less than 95%...", again any % between 0% to 95% is countable.

Shouldn't we use "fewer" in all the above examples instead of "less"? I am sorry but I am just confused!

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Vivek
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by krishnakumar.ks » Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:31 am
Vivek, you are right in pointing out that countable nouns should use the comparative form "fewer" as opposed to "less".

But as MGMAT SC says, for example, money is a countable noun. But we do not say one money , two money etc., though we can still count money! It is a unit and the rule when unit nouns are used is different.

Now, "fewer than $100" means that the number of dollar bills, say $1 bills (imagine 100 rupee notes), is actually less than 100. On the other hand, when you say "less than $100" means that the total money you have including all the kinds of dollar bills ($1, $10, $5, etc,.) doesn't sum up to 100 (imagine you have one 1 rupee note, two 20rs notes and one 50rs note; total 91rs).

Same is the case for other units like "litres" (unit for volume), miles(unit for distance), etc,. They are all units. You will not say "fewer than 5 litres"/"the distance between two points is fewer than 5kms" but "less than 5 litres"/"the distance between two points is less than 5kms".

Hope this helps. Sorry, hope MGMAT SC guide helps. :D
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by urvis_03 » Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:14 pm
Thanks a lot for these. Just started reading them and they are good :)
Good to see they are even there on the AppStore!!
I know i am asking for a bit too much but can we have them on the Android Market too :) just a suggestive question? :P
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by beatthegmat » Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:16 pm
urvis_03 wrote:Thanks a lot for these. Just started reading them and they are good :)
Good to see they are even there on the AppStore!!
I know i am asking for a bit too much but can we have them on the Android Market too :) just a suggestive question? :P
Android is definitely in the future pipeline. I'm an Android person myself. :)
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by Stewartli » Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:25 pm
Thank you so much. that is really helpful.
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by subaie » Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:28 am
you did a great job. thank you so much for all the effort that you put to create this flashcards
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by beatthegmat » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:00 am
@Stewartli and @subaie - You are welcome! :)
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by vipdst1 » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:39 pm
Thanks!!!!
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by aditya.j » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:57 pm
Hi Eric,

The flash cards are amazing!

I was going through the quant section cards(Probability and Geometry). Are we trying to find the probability of an area within X or within Y?

Thanks!

aJ
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by AmandeepSR » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:08 am
Thanks for the GMAT Flashcards!
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by RyanP » Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:37 pm
How much have you updated your flashcards since writing them back in 2006? I'm starting to study them but want to make sure the basic principles haven't changed too much.
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by beatthegmat » Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:50 pm
They have been updated each year, and are indeed up to date!
RyanP wrote:How much have you updated your flashcards since writing them back in 2006? I'm starting to study them but want to make sure the basic principles haven't changed too much.
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