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Yet somehow Windows 10's calculator is worse. - Also won't take in 17281580835365214242. - Inconsistently slow to load, sometimes "instantly" sometimes second
by UnoriginalGuy 11y ago
Yet somehow Windows 10's calculator is worse.
- Also won't take in 17281580835365214242.
- Inconsistently slow to load, sometimes "instantly" sometimes seconds.
- Cannot double click to edit a previously entered formula
- History is terrible now (not in-line, instead a different "tab" hiding the data entry controls).
- Copy/paste sucks. Cannot copy out a formula.
I understand programmers being conservative with data types, but in a freaking calculator if you're trying to save memory by not making everything 64 bit or better then you're incompetent.
- rasz_pl 11y agoand its 47MB
- gorhill 11y agoWow... For perspective, gnome-calculator[1] is 648KB and works fine with 17281580835365214242. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Calculator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Calculator
- mfisher87 11y agojust checked on Win7: calc.exe is 897KB
- anonymfus 11y agoWhere do you get this number? In the store (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/windows-calculator/9wzdncrfhvn5#app-details https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/windows-calculato... ) it says "Approximate size 3.07 MB - 5.79 MB", on my installation it says "368 KB" in the settings app and all "%ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator*" directories are about 5 megabytes together. RAM usage exceeds 47 megabytes with about 5 or 6 calculator windows open.
- rasz_pl 11y agoYes, I meant ram usage. Specifically Working Set jumping above 46MB at the start of calc, and Private bytes hovering around 30MB, all for small one window app.
- userbinator 11y agoIt makes one wonder, 47MB of what? I don't have Win10 so can't easily find out, but for comparison I do happen to have an old version of Mathematica which is command-line only, and it's a little over 7MB (considered huge at the time - it needed 6 floppies!) I doubt the Win10 calculator has anywhere near the functionality of Mathematica. XP's calc.exe, which doesn't have all the annoying bugs mentioned in the article, is 112KB.
- anonymfus 11y agoProbably he was talking about RAM, not disk space.
- anonymfus 11y ago>not in-line, instead a different "tab" hiding the data entry controls You can resize calculator window to be wider, so history and memory tabs will became sidebar.
- quanticle 11y agoThe worst thing is that they got rid of all the "worksheets" that the Windows 7 calculator shipped with. I'm looking at houses now, I sorely miss the mortgage payment worksheet that was built into the Windows 7 calculator.