I've probably suggested this before, but people who introduce arbitrary factors of 100 into calculations for no good reason should have their genitals removed with a wooden spoon.

And if they don't make it clear that they've introduced a factor of 100, then the removed genitals should be pyrotechnically reinserted into them.

Agree 100%

Does OP not understand percentages?

@atheist Depends what you mean by understanding percentages.

Take compound interest for example. If the interest rate for one year is i then the rate for t years is (1+i)^t-1. This is clean and nice.

You can use "5%" as a convenient shorthand for "0.05". This is also clean and nice.

Some people, however, think that the interest rate is 5 rather than 0.05, and so the above formula should be 100*((1+i/100)^t-1). They do this because they think it is simpler than treating 5% as another way of writing 0.05. Even Excel treats 5% as just another way of writing 0.05, so how hard can it possibly be?

Not only are they lifting the lid off the codebase and taking a shit in it, they are doing so because they actually think they're making things easier to understand.

The wooden spoon thing, though slightly unorthodox, would be a powerful deterrent.

@donkulator it‘s funny when you realize that percent literally means "divided by 100"

Ok, I've found yet another place where I'm going to have to hit their fucking API to find out whether unit_price means the price of one unit or the price of 100 units, or some other random thing.

Spoon please, nurse.

@donkulator unit literally means 1. I can feel your pain!