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

[Steve Self]

Fascinating...

However, 4% does have meaning, it is a small amount of something. It  
clearly does not have integer meaning, but meaning nonetheless.

Any time the feathers fly around something like this, it is quite  
interesting... The dance of perspectives... Empirical vs.  
hermeneutical meaning and methodologies... It is only real if it can  
be measured -or- it is valid if it has meaning between people  
conversing. Who's meaning is more meaningful? Validity by increased  
volume?

Anyway, quite off topic but fun...

Steve

> "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