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

[net kat]

What you say below mathmatically will not give you what you are  
thinking verbally.

"28.05 X 15%" might give you 4.2075, but what we want is "28.05 plus  
15% OF 28.05"

nk



On Nov 27, 2005, at 10:31 AM, T.L. Miller wrote:

> To me it's more logical to do it as "28.05 X 15%." That gives me  
> 4.2075.
> That way, the calculator knows what it's taking 15% of. If I were  
> adding
> a tip to a restaurant check, I would calculate the total as "28.05  
> X 115%."

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