[X4U] Tiger's Calculator.app no longer does percentages?

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 26 20:10:45 PST 2005


On 11/26/05 8:02 PM, T.L. Miller <tlmiller at mac.com> wrote:

> On 11/26/05, at 7:05 PM, Neil lists at mac.com said:
> 
>> The reason your are confused is because "15% of" is the same thing as "0.15
>> times,"  but the only time 15%=0.15 is when it is 15% of 1.0.
> 
> When you take 15% of anything, you mutiply by .15  -- I think Tiger's
> calculator works exactly as it should.

Right, which is exactly why Tiger's calculator DOESN'T work as it should. It
should multiply the original number by .15, which it does not do anymore.

Eddie Hargreaves




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