<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>You wouldn't do that even if calculators didn't exist, because there are rules for which operations are done first, second, etc.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>OS X calculator has the order of operations programmed into it, otherwise, you'd have to "do" that FOR the calculator, computing each operation in it's proper order, jotting down the result, then adding the results together.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So, as for having the calculator "act more intelligently," I guess that's another debate. I do want the calculator to save me time and drudgery, and therefore, I do want my use of the % key to be relative to the number I'm operating on, and not for it to blindly and stupidly return 0.15 for 15% unless the number I'm working on is 1.0</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:01 AM, Kuestner, Bjoern 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">But then, what if you type: 15 + 25 + 10%</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Gill Sans; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">Unless you use parentheses, what should the calculator assume? Some would</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">say "15 + 10% of 25", others would say "10% of 15 + 25".</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>