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

[DZ-Jay]

Art wrote:
> 
> On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Eugene wrote:
> 
>> If you say "a of b", mathematically that's "a / b".
> 
> 
> Hardly, e.g., "1/2 of 8" is 1/2 * 8 = 4, and certainly _not_ "1/2 /  8" 
> (= 1/16) as you describe!

It depends on the context.  When talking about "3 of 10", and meaning "3 
  parts out of 10 parts", it means 3/10.  When talking about 1/2 of 8 
and meaning "one half of eight", it means 4 -- but when the context is 
"one half part out of 8 parts", it is indeed 1/16 ( (1/2) / 8 ).  That's 
why math is usually represented in symbols and not in text, as it can be 
ambiguous to do so.

	dZ.