Mac Calculator is bad at math

micky

Adding 19% to 8511.22 renders different results depending on whether you use the % button or multiply by 1.19. The difference is more than 0.04. Which es enough to make you look stupid when writing an invoice.

And do not ask Google for 8511.22 + 19%. :-)

Update: I have smart readers! Ben has nailed the problem. Calculator is truncating 8511.22 to 8511 before calculating the percentage. Other readers are reporting that they are not seeing this error. Current assumption: This only happens on Intel Macs.

Update: This is only getting better. See this video and find out that the bug is related to the locale in use:



vowe.net

echoes

Wow!

JK.

ihc

so germans suck at maths?

micky

looks like it. thank god i'm swedish.

michael

stop hiding behind your pseudo swedish citizenship, chicken. you are more german than most germans are!

CPU

right! hes only 19% swedish, go figure.

micky

cunts. i've even got a swedish passport.

ha!!!!

michael

that doesnt mean anything. i also have one ... it was part of an issue of the yps magazine

CPU

mine came with the abba greatest hits compilation.

if anyone asks, i am natural blond and my name is ulfson bergstrøm!

jussi-k

You have 2 last names Ulfson.

CPU

yes, we're a rich family :D