Show HN: All desktop (software) calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own
by chacha21 on Hacker News.
A new calculator software cannot really bring attention (https://ift.tt/DPuzB9c) However, I wrote a full article explaining why I had to build something “new” that does not behave like usual desktop calculator softwares : TL;DR
All “small” calculator softwares I know share the same design flaws. And the GUI is not the only stumbling block in their poor efficiency. Handling correctly numerical approximations – expected or not – is crucial to trust the results. It is usually not done in lightweight tools. It should. So I prove that if I could do it, OS manufacturers could as well.