Error with drop down box on CNN.
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I was checking out how rich I will be in 40 years, and found that the CNN calculator is a little confused. Not only does the allowed range change every time I go to the page, the drop down box goes to two percent. I wonder how they managed to mangle an interest calculator so much that they can't go below a certain percentage.
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/savingscalc/savingscalc.html
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Just tried it out, and yeah, that is a horrible design. It doesn't make much sense to use drop-down boxes because you are limiting your users to just those values. Don't see why they couldn't just allow users to edit the value. This is probably mug-worthy, though...
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How does 9% become so special that it needs to be first? Is that the base rate in the U.S. Federal tax system? Definitely a horrible page though. I wonder how they come up with that 3.53.... lower limit too. Doesn't seem to be anything special about it, the way you'd assume a 2^31-1 limit if you saw 2147483647 somewhere.
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@MarcB said:
As far as I can tell, there's nothing special about any of them. Why they all have a bizarre out of order option first I just don't understand.How does 9% become so special that it needs to be first? Is that the base rate in the U.S. Federal tax system? Definitely a horrible page though. I wonder how they come up with that 3.53.... lower limit too. Doesn't seem to be anything special about it, the way you'd assume a 2^31-1 limit if you saw 2147483647 somewhere.
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I wonder where 21% has got to. Putting percentages in a dropdown is just wrong. Failure to put the numbers in the right order is madness.
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@Eternal Density said:
I wonder where 21% has got to.
It took 6%'s money and ran off with his wife.
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@bstorer said:
It took 6%'s money and ran off with his wife.
Must have been a dutch wife. I hear they are easy to steal.
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@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@bstorer said:
It took 6%'s money and ran off with his wife.
Must have been a dutch wife. I hear they are easy to steal.
Yeah, well, Dutch chicks really aren't that desirable.. a fact I found out a bit too late, unfortunately. Maybe that's why Dutch men don't bother stopping us...
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@bstorer said:
It took 6%'s money and ran off with his wife.
I figured it out: there's no space for 21% after %20.Is 6%'s wife 9%, since she's the one who is out of place?
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If you go to the website you'll see that after 19% only even numbers show up, because it's absolutly rediculous that anybody would have a return rate above 19% that's odd.
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The hardcoded percentages mean that people from my state cannot use it, unless we want a really estimated estimate.
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@MarcB said:
How does 9% become so special that it needs to be first?
I haven't looked at the site, but 9% around the long-term average return of the US stock market, so it probably is the suggested value to use. However, they can't just lock in the 9% because then some idiot with a lawyer would claim that they had promised 9% returns somehow.
As for 21%, I pity the fool who thinks that s/he will regularly see 21% returns on investments.
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Nonsense... why with my money doubling every 4 years, I'll be rich enough to live on interest alone by the time I'm 40, bwa ha ha....
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@MarcB said:
How does 9% become so special that it needs to be FIST!!!!!one!1!?
FTFY
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Why live on interest alone when you can be rich on interest alone!