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

[Eugene]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:57:45AM CST, Andrew Swanson <swansoac at uwec.edu> wrote:
: On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:18 AM, net kat wrote:
: >
: >0.15 is NOT 15% of 4,000
: 
: 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.

Just a quibble.  "of" does not always means "times".

Thers's Jeri Lynn Ryan, who plays "7 of 9" on the "Star Trek Voyager"
TV series.

If you say "a of b", mathematically that's "a / b".
If you say "a% of b", mathematically that's "a% * b".


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Eugene
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