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

[John Baltutis]

On 11/26/05, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> 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% = 28.2
>
> In Panther, it performs correctly and automatically converts the 15% to
> 4.2075, making the final sum 32.2575
>
> Is there some setting I can change in Tiger to make this work again?

Color me confused, but 15% = 0.15, which when added to 28.05 = 28.2 (at
least that's consistent with what I learned in school 58 years ago). To do
what you want, simply use 28.05 * 1.15 = 32.2575.

If Panther's calculator works the way you described, then, IMHO, it's the
one with the error, not the one in Tiger.