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

[Neil]

on 11/27/05 12:14 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:

> On 11/27/05, at 12:05 PM, Neil lists at mac.com said:
> 
>> on 11/27/05 12:00 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> I
>>> am constantly surprised how people don't understand decimals
>> 
>> I'm not too surprised that the uneducated people behind the deli counter
>> don't understand decimals, but I am surprised that some of the more educated
>> people here don't realize that a percentage is a ratio and not a number.
> 
> I wasn't talking about a deli counter, I was talking about ads place by
> a large supermarket chain in major Florida newspapers.

Sorry, I forgot about that.  I think you mentioned it a few e-mails back.

> I've seen
> examples on local TV news where they were showing .20¢ when they meant
> 20 cents.

That sounds like a typo, or a mistake.  I mean, if you confronted the guy
who wrote the ad and told him he should have written 20 cents instead of .20
cents, do you think he would have still insisted that he meant .20 cents?

We confronted people here who said that 15% is a number, not a ratio and
they insist they are right even after we try to correct them.  That
surprised me.  On the other hand, maybe the guy who wrote the ad would
search the internet for links to "prove" that he meant .20 cents.   ;)