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

[net kat]

You wouldn't do that even if calculators didn't exist, because there  
are rules for which operations are done first, second, etc.

OS X calculator has the order of operations programmed into it,  
otherwise, you'd have to "do" that FOR the calculator, computing each  
operation in it's proper order, jotting down the result, then adding  
the results together.

So, as for having the calculator "act more intelligently," I guess  
that's another debate. I do want the calculator to save me time and  
drudgery, and therefore, I do want my use of the % key to be relative  
to the number I'm operating on, and not for it to blindly and  
stupidly return 0.15 for 15% unless the number I'm working on is 1.0

nk



On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:01 AM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:

> But then, what if you type: 15 + 25 + 10%
>
> Unless you use parentheses, what should the calculator assume? Some  
> would
> say "15 + 10% of 25", others would say "10% of 15 + 25".

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