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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