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

[net kat]

can't say I'm on board with ya there, either.  I would say that "by"  
means "times"
but to say what OF this is that, you're describing a portion of the  
whole.

But, to re-OSX-ify the thread, I think the original poster was  
talking about Calculator behavior, ie, when you punch in the keys,  
what does Calculator do with that? What is the user experience like?

The preponderance of calculators, both virtual and physical, handle  
the problem the same way, which is: "here's a number. add 15% of that  
number to that number and give me the result."

To have a % key which merely returns 0.15 for 15% is not just a waste  
of a key, but people who don't know that 15% of 1.0 is 0.15 are going  
to be stumped anyway, not helped.

nk




On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Andrew Swanson wrote:

> In converting english to mathematics, "of" usually means "times."

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