[X4U] Is the topic of how calculators do percentages worth 87 posts to this list?

[net kat]

I have noticed that the folks here who prefer to calculate their  
percents using the 28.05 * 1.15 method don't really have a dog in  
this fight as to how Calculator's % key behaves. These same users say  
they don't like and don't even USE the % key, so logically, it should  
be no skin off their noses if part of the world prefers the % key to  
"do the math" for a user who actually USES that key.

Not that free discussion of all sides shouldn't happen, but I get the  
feeling that the folks who like the % key to simply move the decimal  
point two places are having their sense of mathematical purity  
offended, and that they need to DEfend and teach and instruct the  
rest of us in the "right way" to use the % key which they themselves  
don't even use.

No matter how the % key behaves, you are in no way prevented from  
calculating your percents however it pleases you to do so. The order  
of operations is there, the decimal key works for you, as do the  
parentheses, the 4 basic function keys as well as the = key.

You are free to uphold your vision of mathematical purity. The rest  
of us simply want the % key (which you don't even use) to behave as  
it once did.

nk