<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>we're not contesting that 1% is 1/100. We are all on board with that revelation.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But in the context of doing a calculation wherein you want to know the result of making a particular number 15% bigger, it is idiotic for the calculator to return 0.15 on the grounds that 15% may be expressed as 0.15. < That factoid is not relevant to the desired goal other than as a multiplier which we expect the % function to handle.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>After all, that's why they're called "Functions." That is, they perform functions so that the user doesn't have to.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">But at the end of the day, 1% is still nothing else but 1/100.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">That's the definition of percentage: A fraction.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">You absolutely do not have to use another factor behind a percentage or any</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">other fraction.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">You do not _have to_ specify "of what" any more than if you write "0.01".</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>