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The Picard Maneuver lemmy.world The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
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SadSadSatellite lemmy.dbzer0.com SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-10-14
#2 · Quote Reply

Also my "calculator" app

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zoloftt lemmy.world zoloftt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-04
#3 · Quote Reply

80085

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plantfanatic sh.itjust.works plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-05-25
#4 · Quote Reply

Sometimes you just can’t, so yeah verifying that 2x4 does in fact equal 8 can save a potential headache.

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Enkrod feddit.org Enkrod@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

Put your calculator into hexadecimal mode.

Now, let me tell you a story, three people walk into a café 3CAFE, there they have sex / 6, now tell me, what do they get?

(Admittedly, the joke works better in the original german, because 6 = sechs, which sounds like sex)

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zarathustrad lemmy.world zarathustrad@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-04
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

Put your calculator into hexadecimal mode. Now, let me tell you a story, three people walk into a café 3CAFE, there they have sex / 6, now tell me, what do they get? (Admittedly, the joke works better in the original german, because 6 = sechs, which sounds like sex)

Was that funny in English? 9

(Admittedly, it is funny in German ;)

In English it's as funny as asking a German if they know the square root of 81.

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Sanguine lemmy.dbzer0.com Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-10
#7 · Quote Reply

Also my "calculator" app

Lmao ifykyk

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Rolivers discuss.tchncs.de Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-15
#8 · Quote Reply

LOL + LOL = HIHI

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python lemmy.world python@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#9 · Quote Reply

I once spent 3 hours straight trying to figure out how to make 147 by only using 4 fours. Only to find out that my phone calculator doesn't even have the required operator key to make it work.

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mrgoosmoos lemmy.ca mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-24
#10 · Quote Reply

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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D_C sh.itjust.works D_C@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#11 · Quote Reply

80085

8008135

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tyranny crazypeople.online tyranny@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2026-06-11
#12 · Quote Reply

feral pawgs wnen they see this twitter user: 😱

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megopie lemmy.blahaj.zone megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-06-15
#13 · Quote Reply

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, t...

“Well, you see, boiling water on the stove is the past, now we boil water on an engine block by redlining it.”

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Rose piefed.social umbraroze@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-06
#14 · Quote Reply

My calculator history is boring.

[litres of beer I think I can stomach] * 3 * [price of the cheapest 330cl beer can]
[Repeat of the same but one litre less because beer is damn expensive. (Not as expensive as proper spirits though)]

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BoosBeau lemmy.world BoosBeau@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-18
#15 · Quote Reply

please, we all immediately clear it after every use

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jack_of_sandwich lemmy.sdf.org jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-12
#16 · Quote Reply

5318008

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TheEighthDoctor lemmy.zip TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-01-15
#17 · Quote Reply

I went to check how bad can it be...

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#18 · Quote Reply

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, t...

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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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-26
#19 · Quote Reply

I went to check how bad can it be...

I got this one. 100,001,000,000÷100

No idea what I was trying to calculate.

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Polisheocket lemmy.zip Polisheocket@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-07-14
#20 · Quote Reply

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!

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

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-10-06
#21 · Quote Reply

This guy figured out how to divide by zero and doesn't want the information to fall into the wrong hands.

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hornedfiend piefed.social hornedfiend@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-21
#22 · Quote Reply

Was that funny in English? 9 (Admittedly, it is funny in German ;) In English it's as funny as asking a German if they know the square root of 81.

Now, what is the binary base of \sqrt{64}?

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TheEmpireStrikesDak thelemmy.club DakRalter@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2023-06-15
#23 · Quote Reply

I got this one. No idea what I was trying to calculate.

I used to be a straight A maths student. I got 74/75 in my P1 retake 😭😭😭 and unlike Mma Makutsi, I'm real!

I'd like to say one of the kids was using my phone, but I think this was all me.

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Hiro8811 lemmy.world Hiro8811@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-16
#24 · Quote Reply

100496

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Sylvartas lemmy.dbzer0.com Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-11
#25 · Quote Reply

Sometimes you just can’t, so yeah verifying that 2x4 does in fact equal 8 can save a potential headache.

I apparently had to verify that 59000x0 was still 0 for some reason

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Knuschberkeks leminal.space Knuschberkeks@leminal.space
Joined: 2024-05-12
#26 · Quote Reply

not that Bad actually.

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Doodle69420 lemmy.world Czombolero@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#27 · Quote Reply

not that Bad actually.

Excuse you Mr Einstein. My history is 8+7 and the like :D

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n7gifmdn lemmy.ca n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2022-12-10
#28 · Quote Reply

Also my "calculator" app

I assumed that is what he meant, no?

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#29 · Quote Reply

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

Macos uses yahoo finance by default (no idea if you can change it). I don't have access to my KDE box at the moment, sorry.

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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-09
#30 · Quote Reply

Fossil fuel secrets...Shell Oil.

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mrgoosmoos lemmy.ca mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-24
#31 · Quote Reply

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!

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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CalypsoGirl lemmy.today CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-08-15
#32 · (edited) Quote Reply

Here's mine. So humiliating. Someone please show me how to find the dead man switch??

127.32+159.56
=286.88

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56 + 15.5
=71.5

89 x 35
=3,115

3,115 ÷1.5
=2,076.6666666667

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CalypsoGirl lemmy.today CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-08-15
#33 · Quote Reply

I used to be a straight A maths student. I got 74/75 in my P1 retake 😭😭😭 and unlike Mma Makutsi, I'm real! I'd like to say one of the kids was using my phone, but I think this was all me.

🤣 Straight A's in math and you pull out your calculator for 12+12

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plantfanatic sh.itjust.works plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-05-25
#34 · (edited) Quote Reply

I apparently had to verify that 59000x0 was still 0 for some reason

You never know, you maybe found the exception.

I like playing factory games, so lots of little ratio calculations, they tend to blur/blend together with how close some are sometimes.

Like this one makes 5 every 3 seconds, this one makes 1 every 10 seconds. So gotta balance everything nicely.

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Bluewing lemmy.world Bluewing@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-10-25
#35 · Quote Reply

And you better damn well erase the Casio one and not worry about the Texas Instruments one.

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ltxrtquq lemmy.ml ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
#36 · Quote Reply

I once spent 3 hours straight trying to figure out how to make 147 by only using 4 fours. Only to find out that my phone calculator doesn't even have the required operator key to make it work.

I'm not sure what rules you were using, but addition/subtraction and multiplication will only ever give you even numbers and 147 is odd. If you're allowing division, then 4*37-(4/4).

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Axolotl.cpp lemmy.dbzer0.com Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-10-01
#37 · Quote Reply

I used to be a straight A maths student. I got 74/75 in my P1 retake 😭😭😭 and unlike Mma Makutsi, I'm real! I'd like to say one of the kids was using my phone, but I think this was all me.

I could've used my hands...

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