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[–] 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I've actually been using this less, now

I used to often punch simple summations into google, because it was convenient (I always have an empty tab open on one of my windows) and the risk of getting something wrong is too great to not spend the time quickly typing in "27+14-3+8"

but now it sometimes sends formulas, that were previously evaluated just fine in the search bar calculator function, to the AI response. and that's not a calculator.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    Cmd+space on macos or alt+space on KDE open a floating text input which does math (and currency conversion!).

    On Samsung phones you can have a side-bar one slide away with a calculator as well.

    Take that, school math teacher telling us we wouldn't have a calculator!

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    yeah my behaviour is 100% a result of the windows calculator being shit

    well that and I don't want to move my hands off the kb/m to my phone, which I don't keep in my office anyways

    I've started just doing it in any of the Excel docs I always happen to have open, which is often better for making revisions and comparing numbers anyways. then just clear those cells when done / close without saving (well, the times that Microsoft lets me close without saving, anyways - sometimes it saves even if auto save is off and you choose to not save)

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    Do you know the source of the currency conversion? Like does it come from xe.com for example

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