<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>yeah..we get that concept. 0.15 of anything you apply it to, and you thereby prove our case: we are applying the % function TO 28.05, not to 1.0!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>what appears to be broken in the calculator is the understanding of what to DO with that fact in an algebraic expression.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I guess there are 2 sides here, and "our" side feels that to say "28.05+15% = 28.2" is sheer idiocy from any angle, the flaw being that Calculator either merely converts the number 15 to a decimal percent equivalent, OR Calculator assumes that you want to add 15% of 1.0.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Either case is logically incorrect. Again, we are not disputing that 15% of 1 is 0.15.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm old enough to remember a time when it was a huge selling point for a calculator to have Algebraic logic built-in. Without that, you're stuck with busting out the hierarchy of operations, calculating each result, then adding the results together, which almost completely makes the calculator worthless.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 27, 2005, at 10:00 AM, T.L. Miller wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">Again, 15% means .15 of anything you apply it to. I almost never use %</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">keys -- maybe over the years I developed a lack of confidence in what</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">they did.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>