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But I never wanted a button that worked like that.

That's not what I care about when calculating percentages.

I don't want an inlined relative percentile value, based on prior terms. I almost never need that, and thus never use the percentage key, because that makes it useless and the behavior is counter intuitive.

What if I have a much longer chain of calculations to tally up? What I need, then, is a percentage for one of the terms in isolation, BEFORE I start calculating.

If I have an arbitrarily large number, and an arbitrarily complex percentile value, which makes the percentile value difficult to determine in one's head, I want a button that performs as follows:

  37.82726419 percent of 9999.928374666666 equals ???

Which gets keyed as:

  37.82726419 % 9999.928374666666 = ???

Then, I take that number and roll it into any other subsequent equations.

Too bad the button will never ever work that way, because "tradition."