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Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by olliej on Monday March 07, 2022 @01:56PM (#30591820)
This seems like it’s not a “for everyone” calculator, and built in OS calculators are always going to go “simple desktop calculator” design as that’s what the vast majority of people want or need.

That said I just type equations into spotlight - it doesn’t handle user defined functions, graph results, or anything, but it has a reasonably full suite of the standard arithmetic functions and operators

Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by chacha21 on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:05PM (#30591936)
You know what ? I was not even aware that it would work ! (Am I the only one to discover that just now ? I am not using Spotlight very often)

It's kind of cool, but I can still find many grievances about the way it's done :-)

Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by olliej on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:15PM (#30592068)
I’m sure it’s not ideal, but for my purposes cmd-space (random math) is generally sufficient. But I’m also not a mathematician so I do maths with numbers and not letters :)
Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by chacha21 on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:16PM (#30593431)
Even with numbers only, it can still be useful to know how wrong the result is. Chalk keeps track of every inaccuracy when dealing with decimal numbers.
Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by olliej on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:30AM (#30596751)
Oh yeah, I very much use it as a super quick access calculator. If I was needing in a situation where I needed controlled error etc it wouldn’t necessarily be great, but that’s ok because in general if you have me working on something requiring that your project has other issues :)