[X4U] Is the topic of how calculators do percentages worth 87 posts to this list?

[John Baltutis]

On 11/28/05, Aaron <macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> I joined this list recently after moving up to OS X (10.3.9). I joined to
>get (and perhaps offer) info relevant to the use of that OS.
>
> Approxiamately 56 hours ago, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net>
>posted a useful bit of info about a significant difference between how the
>versions of calculator.app under Panther and Tiger handle percentages.
>Since then, there have been 87 (yes, eighty-seven!) responses to that
>post, most of which -- judging, I admit, by a sample -- argue about the
>"right" or "usual" way for calculators to handle percentages, but
>contribute nothing to an understanding of how to get OS X (Panther, Tiger
>or whatever) to do what one wants it to do! (I don't mean to get nasty,
>but I DO mean to be critical!)

Various solutions were offered; e.g., here's one, 28.05 * 1.15.

> Very early on in the thread, I posted the following:
>>
>>Is there any reason why Panther's Calculator.app can't be used in Tiger?

No. Works in Tiger as it does in Panther.