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

[Eugene]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:25:56PM CST, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:
: On 11/27/05, Neil <Lists at mac.com> wrote:
: >
: > No, this is why you are confused.  15% is not a number, it's a ratio.  You
: > don't know it's value until you apply the ratio to the operand.
: 
: Agreed. 15% is a ratio. Of what? It's a ratio of two integers, the
: denominator being 100. A ratio of any two integers is a rational number,
: which, by everyone's definition, is a number.

Actually, a percentage doesn't have to be an integer.
Haven't you seen things like 15.5% ?


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Eugene
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