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For me it's calculating. Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.

People are doing what now? fr? There's a whole ass app for that.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Search engine UI is better for it than most default calculators. I use Kubuntu and KCalc is usually pretty crap in comparison.

Say I want to calculate 220480*(1.05^23-1.05^22). Now I want to 220480*(1.05^24-1.05^23), doing that in KCalc requires awkwardly typing out the entire thing again. Doing it in duckduckgo I just change 23 and 22 to 24 and 23.

But I also don't use a calculator often enough to look for a better one to install.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I use librecalc - I would've used excell in a previous life, but most spreadsheets will do - and what I like about it is that I can keep a running tally of the entire calculation chain as I go. And once you learn to use the tool, it can do much, much more powerful things.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah for more complex stuff I do sometimes use librecalc

[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

If you type it the search bar, it pulls up a calculator with the answer on it. I do it all the time.