Al Hodges wrote:
> Percentage Error
>    
>   This should be fixed, as it is identical to the error in 
>   Microsoft's Excel.
>    
>   Someone with a legal mind at Microsoft might even 
>   accuse you of copying their program, when your Open Office Calc duplicates 
> the error in Microsoft's Excel. 
>    
>   When I was a college teacher, I failed two students 
>   for cheating because they both used exactly the 
>   same stupid wrong answers. We used to call that 
>   cheating.
>    
>   In reverse engineered software, it could get you sued.
>    
>   The error is simple: 
>   In both Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice Calc, there is a fault in handling 
> percentage.
>   Enter 5, then enter % from tool bar; result is 5%
>   Enter 0.5, then enter % from tool bar; result is 50%, 
>   but I wanted to have 1/2 of 1% as the number in the location.
>  
I get 500.00% and 50.00%.  If I enter the % from the keyboard, I get
5.00% and 0.50%



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