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

[Ray Choiniere]

On 11/29/05, Peter Saint James <peterstj at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 26 Nov 2005, at 1:49 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
>
> > The Calculator application located in /Applications (just so
> > everyone knows
> > I'm not talking about the widget) doesn't appear to do percentages
> > correctly
> > anymore in Tiger.
> >
> > Example: Type 28.05 + 15% =
> > I get 28.2
>
>
>                 I found it works the way you want if you hit the keys in different
> order.
>
>                 I typed in 100 + 15 %.  I got 100.15 for an answer.
>
>                 I typed in 100 + % 15.  I got 115 for an answer.
>
>                                                         Peter

Well, it looks like what this is giving is actually 100 + 15; the "%"
is simply ignored. As a test try 50 + % 15 and you'll see that you get
65, not 57.5.

Ray