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

[net kat]

we're not contesting that 1% is 1/100. We are all on board with that  
revelation.

But in the context of doing a calculation wherein you want to know  
the result of making a particular number 15% bigger, it is idiotic  
for the calculator to return 0.15 on the grounds that 15% may be  
expressed as 0.15.  < That factoid is not relevant to the desired  
goal other than as a multiplier which we expect the % function to  
handle.

After all, that's why they're called "Functions." That is, they  
perform functions so that the user doesn't have to.

nk



On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:

> But at the end of the day, 1% is still nothing else but 1/100.
> That's the definition of percentage: A fraction.
> You absolutely do not have to use another factor behind a  
> percentage or any
> other fraction.
> You do not _have to_ specify "of what" any more than if you write  
> "0.01".

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20051128/474b613f/attachment-0001.html