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

T.L. Miller tlmiller at mac.com
Sun Nov 27 09:00:52 PST 2005


On 11/27/05, at 10:36 AM, net kat netkat at comcast.net said:

>What you say below mathmatically will not give you what you are thinking
>verbally.
>
>"28.05 X 15%" might give you 4.2075, but what we want is "28.05 plus 15%
>OF 28.05"

I view that % key simply as a way to avoid using a decimal and it
probably helps people who understand percentages better than decimals. I
am constantly surprised how people don't understand decimals -- the .15¢/
pound turkey example.

Tom Miller
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"The only time we see the middle of the road is as  
we run from side to side." R.O.Clark 
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