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

net kat netkat at comcast.net
Sun Nov 27 18:51:11 PST 2005


"percent" is not a number; it's a way to obtain a number, by the  
process of calculating a portion of the whole. in this case, at the  
rate of how many per hundred.

4 percent of 238 has meaning

4 percent as a standalone statement has no meaning

nk



On Nov 27, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Aron Spencer wrote:

> See, a percent _can_ stand on it's own. You have to use the "of" to  
> have the effect you're discussing



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