[X4U] Is the topic of how calculators do percentages worth 87 posts to this list?

[Eugene]

Actually, it's easier to retrain dogs than humans.  :-)



On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:18:05PM CST, Brett Conlon <brett.conlon at SonyDADC.com> wrote:
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: It's hard to teach old dogs new tricks.... good thing we're not working 
: with dogs!   ;-D
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: Coj
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: Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net>
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: <snipped>
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: In fact, just today I had an advertising contact call me up and said I 
: could
: take 15% off a certain rate. Normally, I would type the number, subtract
: 15%, which is the way I've been doing it for years. With the new Tiger
: calculator, I would have to change my thought to creating a proper
: mathematical written equation of the number * .85
: 
: <snipped>


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Eugene
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