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

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      22 hours ago

      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*(1.0523-1.0522). Now I want to 220480*(1.0524-1.0523), 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.

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        10 hours ago

        Once you go apt install qalc you never go back

        Edit: or the gui version, idk, I pretty much live on the command line so maybe I’m biased but this thing does everything I’ve ever wanted from a calculator. Also use it on my phone now, yes from the command line, because I still haven’t found a proper mobile app that can conveniently do more than multiplication

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        13 hours ago

        For those things I use bc

        It’s probably already installed. You can curse me later when you find what it is.