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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: interest computing problem
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> > hoping this is a simple error that I'm overlooking..
> Your program appears to be correct to me.  What were you expecting?
  Perhaps he didn't realize that "What is the interest you will receive? "
is highly ambiguous and in the one case he entered 25, indicating 25%,
and in the other .25, which was interpreted as 1/4%.