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

[T.L. Miller]

>> When your dinner bill comes to $127 do you leave a dime and
>>  a nickel as a 15% tip (ie. $.15)?

On 11/26/05, at 10:49 PM, John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com said:

>No. I leave the original amount plus 15% of it; i.e., 127 + 127 x 0.15 =
>127 x 1.15 = 146.05.
>
>> I think the original example is ambiguous because it didn't specify the
>> "of."  One very reasonable assumption would be that the 15% mentioned
in the
>> equation is 15% of the 28.05.
>
>Unambiguous and unreasonable in any mathematical sense. The original
>problem was the sum of two numbers: 28.05 + 15% = 28.2, which is
>mathematically correct.

I couldn't agree with you more. 

For the fun of it, I took my old Casio  JW-8L hand-held and got this:

127 + 15% = 273.05

After keying in 15%, it gave me 146.05 (assumed I wanted 115%) and
hitting = added the two together.


Tom Miller
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