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Hi, I was a bit suprised about the way the percentage function works. It would look so much nicer if the percentage sign '%' would be used as postfix operator (like the factorial operator "!"  . I know that this will not always be an adequate replacement in a formula, but for defining constants it would be great. Maybe when you start implementing physical units you can treat percentage as a unit.
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Hello, I support this proposal. Originally Posted by: sleschke  Hi, I was a bit suprised about the way the percentage function works. It would look so much nicer if the percentage sign '%' would be used as postfix operator (like the factorial operator "!" . I know that this will not always be an adequate replacement in a formula, but for defining constants it would be great. Maybe when you start implementing physical units you can treat percentage as a unit. What can be done: (unfortunately 'Prozent:0.01 does not work) 'Prozent:0.01 2*'Prozent=0.02@# {2*'mm}/'m=0.2@'Prozent Using the % sign would be much more intuitive for the user. It is easy to write this on paper, the letter is easy to type, thus why not use it? I have in mind the usage for mechanical engineering applications, e.g. for strain. Here even the per-thousand symbol would be welcome. I tried to extend the units definitions (Units.xml under Entries) <unit value="0.01" description="581" dimension="All"> <name lang="eng" text="'%" /> </unit> This failed, just as the attempt to define a unit '% interactively fails. First obstacle is the binding of the %-key to the plus/minus-operator. Second obstacle is that when editing a unit name string the GUI doesn't even accept %-characters from the clipboard. Best regards, Martin Kraska |
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