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Re: [March 25th, 2009] "One Rom To Rule Them All..." MIGHTYROM 4.16 [20771] [UC] [24M
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Originally Posted by yardizidifer
First, 100 + 10% is NOT 110. Any calculator giving you that answer, I suggest breaking it or throwing it away. By looking at the pattern you pressed your keys, you're telling your calculator to "devide" 10 by 100, then "add" 100 to it. SO....10%=0.1
100+10%=
100+0.1= 100.1
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10% of 100 is 10.
So pressing:
100
+
10
%
=
is supposed to give me 110.
As I mentioned above, the Windows calculator, my Treo's calculator and other calculators I have all give me the same answer when I do the calculations on post #5767 above / the way I've described above.
Last edited by IsLNdbOi; 03-28-2009 at 02:50 AM.
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