On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:59:11 +0100, Phil Jessop wrote:

if you get a bag of 100x 5% you should have no problem finding
lots of
those within your 1% margin.

.... but all the 1% and 2% will have already been sorted and taken out -
so no chance!

Depends if you want to be within 1% of the nominal value or 1% within
a value within the 5% range of the nominal value. B-)

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Cheers
Dave.