Since we PC users have been taking a real beating in those Mac vs. PC ads, which Bill Gates and others have taken issue with, we are always looking for a way to make fun of Mac. Apparently under certain circumstance the Mac calculator does has a few issues …
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 is enough to make you look stupid when writing an invoice. Source: vowe.net
A smart readership at that site has concluded a) it’s isolated to Intel Macs, b) it’s isolated to Calculator (meaning it’s no relation to that old, old Intel F.P. bug from long ago), c) it’s related to Locale.
On the other hand, the same operation works just fine on a PC!
