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

Andy Hannen andy.hannen at virgin.net
Mon Nov 28 03:39:25 PST 2005


> Incorrect.
> 
> 0.15 is NOT 15% of 4,000
> 
> That's why I gave you the more complete expression for percent, which is:
> 
> (a/100)* b       "b" is the value for which you want to calculate percent
> "a/100" expresses the proportion of  b which you seek.
> 
> nk
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:14 AM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:
> 
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>> But it is wrong to say that "15% is *not* always 0.15".
>>  
> 
Interesting though this thread may be but the connection to OS X is becoming
ever more tenuous.
(Just my 2% worth)

Andy
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