Problem with HP 17bii+

[Dave Hicks]

As an RPN/scientific kind of guy, if I wanted to add 11% to 4% I would just add the 11 and 4 and ignore the symbol. Or if I intended to take the resulting percentage of some other number, then I would just shift the decimal in my head like you did and add .11 and .04. (As such, I don’t use percent keys much – if humanity had decided that perthirtyseven was interesting, then I’d use that key!)

However, I do think that bankers/businessmen/investment advisors like to speak in terms of adding 4% in the way that the calculator does it.