<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>can't say I'm on board with ya there, either. I would say that "by" means "times"</DIV><DIV>but to say what OF this is that, you're describing a portion of the whole.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">But, to re-OSX-ify the thread, I think the original poster was talking about Calculator <B>behavior</B>, ie, when you punch in the keys, what does Calculator do with that? What is the user experience like?</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The preponderance of calculators, both virtual and physical, handle the problem the same way, which is: "here's a number. add 15% of that number to that number and give me the result."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To have a % key which merely returns 0.15 for 15% is not just a waste of a key, but people who don't know that 15% of 1.0 is 0.15 are going to be stumped anyway, not helped.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Andrew Swanson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">In converting english to mathematics, "of" usually means "times."</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>