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

[net kat]

yeah..we get that concept. 0.15 of anything you apply it to, and you  
thereby prove our case: we are applying the % function TO 28.05, not  
to 1.0!

what appears to be broken in the calculator is the understanding of  
what to DO with that fact in an algebraic expression.

I guess there are 2 sides here, and "our" side feels that to say  
"28.05+15% = 28.2" is sheer idiocy from any angle, the flaw being  
that Calculator either merely converts the number 15 to a decimal  
percent equivalent, OR Calculator assumes that you want to add 15% of  
1.0.

Either case is logically incorrect. Again, we are not disputing that  
15% of 1 is 0.15.

I'm old enough to remember a time when it was a huge selling point  
for a calculator to have Algebraic logic built-in. Without that,  
you're stuck with busting out the hierarchy of operations,  
calculating each result, then adding the results together, which  
almost completely makes the calculator worthless.

nk


On Nov 27, 2005, at 10:00 AM, T.L. Miller wrote:

> Again, 15% means .15 of anything you apply it to. I almost never use %
> keys -- maybe over the years I developed a lack of confidence in what
> they did.

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