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

[T.L. Miller]

On 11/27/05, at 10:15 AM, net kat netkat at comcast.net said:

>what appears to be broken in the calculator is the understanding of what

Not broken, they just do it differently.

>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.

To me it's more logical to do it as "28.05 X 15%." That gives me 4.2075.
That way, the calculator knows what it's taking 15% of. If I were adding
a tip to a restaurant check, I would calculate the total as "28.05 X 115%."



Tom Miller
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