Sorry - that's a baseball analogy referring to batting average. Batting average is defined as the quotient of hits divided by at bats. So .300 means that a ba

Sorry - that's a baseball analogy referring to batting average. Batting average is defined as the quotient of hits divided by at bats. So .300 means that a batter has 300 hits out of 1000 at bats. More than you'd ever want to know about batting average is here :) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_average http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_average Re: downvote comment - apologies for that. A relative newbie to HN commenting.