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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 :)