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

[Andrew Swanson]

It seems no-one read beyond the first sentence of my previous post.
In converting english to mathematics, "of" usually means "times."
So of course, 15% of 4000 is not 0.15, it is 15%*4000=600. While 15%  
alone means 15/100 or 0.15.

How would you answer the question "What percent of 5000 is 250?"

In any case, my real OSX related opinion on this has change to this:
Apple has change the calculator over the past few years so that it  
has Programmer and Scientific modes (and RPN). A "%" key is really  
unnecessary on a scientific calculator (none of the ones I use has  
one, and I've never missed it - when I want 4% of a number, I just  
key in 0.04* the number). I could even argue that, as far as I am  
concerned, Apple finally FIXED the behavior of the "%" key. Anyway, I  
think there are probably better uses of the screen real estate than a  
% key. (For that matter, I find the presence of "x^3" a little  
strange, too.)

However, the behavior nk expects is perfectly reasonable - for a  
FINANCIAL calculator. There are also quite a number of other  
functions that are reasonable for a financial calculator that are  
missing from Apple's calculator. Apple should create a "Financial"  
mode and move the "%" key to it.


  Andy

On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:18 AM, net kat wrote:

> 0.15 is NOT 15% of 4,000