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

[Aron Spencer]

Ah, but .15 is a ratio as well. So is 1. ¹, however is not, nor are  
e, Ã2, Ã3, Ã5, ....
Hence the term "rational numbers".

:-)

On Nov 27, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Neil wrote:

> on 11/27/05 2:06 PM, Andrew Swanson wrote:
>
>> I will dispute what "15%" means. 15% is 0.15.
>
> OK, I give up.  It looks like some people will just always insist that
> percentages are numbers rather than ratios.  15% is a ratio, .15 is  
> a tool
> we use to calculate the value of 15%.  Both are meaningless without an
> operand.  You can refuse to accept it, and we will just move on.
>
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Aron S. Spencer
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