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

[Crandon David]

I agree. Tiger is doing the "correct" way, but it may not be the  
"intuitive" way.

David


On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:07 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> 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.
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