[libreoffice-users] Re: percentage to get number in Calc

Am 26.09.2011 14:58, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> It's not really wrong but there needs to be some indication that it is a percentage figure.  The 
> original numbers don't really warrant more than 2 decimal places.  Another way of removing problems 
> with ambiguity would be to write the equation as
> = 556.85 * 100 / 646.15
> Then it doesn't matter if  (100/646.15) is calculated first or the (556.85 * 100), either way the 
> answer is about the same, hopefully exactly the same.
> Regards from
> Tom :)

Why not simply formatting the correct value as percentage? This way we 
have the indication that it is a percentage figure while having the 
correct relation for further calculations.


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