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

T.L. Miller tlmiller at mac.com
Sun Nov 27 09:14:44 PST 2005


On 11/27/05, at 12:05 PM, Neil lists at mac.com said:

>on 11/27/05 12:00 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:
>
>> I
>> am constantly surprised how people don't understand decimals
>
>I'm not too surprised that the uneducated people behind the deli counter
>don't understand decimals, but I am surprised that some of the more educated
>people here don't realize that a percentage is a ratio and not a number.

I wasn't talking about a deli counter, I was talking about ads place by
a large supermarket chain in major Florida newspapers. I've seen
examples on local TV news where they were showing .20¢ when they meant
20 cents.

Tom Miller
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