Re: math (was: Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users)

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

> Thanks, I knew somebody will improve it for free.
>
> Now I will use:
>
> (defun pct-of-number-in-total (number total)
>   "Return the percentage that NUMBER represents in a TOTAL."
>   (/ number total 0.01))

But that's even better, one less function AND no 1.0 or
`float'.

(defun percent (n d)
  (let ((pct (/ n d 0.01)))
    (message "%.1f%%" pct)))
;; (percent 8  256) ; 3.1%
;; (percent 0 1337) ; 0.0%

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