persistable sclass PercentIncrease {
  settable double percentIncrease;
  
  *(double *percentIncrease) {}
  
  double get() { ret percentIncrease; }
  double asFactor aka factor aka getFactor() { ret 1+percentIncrease/100; }
  
  static PercentIncrease of(double percentIncrease) {
    ret new PercentIncrease(percentIncrease);
  }
  
  static PercentIncrease fromFactor(double factor) {
    ret new PercentIncrease((factor-1)*100);
  }
  
  toString { ret plusMinusFix(formatDouble_significant(percentIncrease, 4)) + "%"; }
  
  PercentIncrease combineWith aka mul(PercentIncrease i) {
    ret fromFactor(asFactor()*i.asFactor());
  }
  
  double applyTo aka mul(double x) {
    ret asFactor()*x;
  }
  
  // gets the n-th root (an increase you can apply n times to get the original one)
  PercentIncrease root aka nthRoot(double n) {
    ret fromFactor(Math.pow(asFactor(), 1/n));
  }
  
  // gets the n-th power (an increase you can apply n times to get the original one)
  PercentIncrease pow aka repeat(double n) {
    ret fromFactor(Math.pow(asFactor(), n));
  }
}