• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Gnome calculator uses 103m, it’s loading style sheets for themes, UI libraries that make it look nice and modern, scientific calculator features, keyboard shortcuts, nice graphical settings menu, touch screen and screen reader support etc

    I don’t think in this day and age for all the niceties people are used to that’s unreasonable.

    Also other calculators are available, some are bloated but I’m sure there’s a rust or C one out there somewhere that uses a fraction of that with the bare minimum feature set

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      bc is 91 kilobytes and can work with seriously big numbers.

      You want to know what 2^99812 is? bc will tell you. Hint: the result is so big I could not paste it in here. bc does not care, bc just delivers.

      Not saying there is anything wrong with a GUI calculator using 103m of RAM and looking fancy while only working with tiny numbers, just saying.

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        1 month ago

        I mean personally if I need a heavy duty calculator I’ll just use python or something