this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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While I get your sentiment, I'm always baffled how people fail to just memorize some basic formulas/equations and then just to plug and play:
1÷kⁿ = k⁻ⁿ
% = 1÷100 = 10⁻²
k×10ⁿ equals k with its floating point shifted by n to the right for positive n, or to the left for negative n
That's really all one needs to know for the "problem" at hand. For your concrete example of "40% of 59" that would just be
59×40×10⁻²
Just solve that whatever way is easiest. I don't get why people get panic-stricken when they see the % sign.