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> A paid calculator app might be better designed than a free one. A very bold claim - there are many paid-for calc apps that just use plain floating point math
by NikkiA 7y ago
> A paid calculator app might be better designed than a free one.
A very bold claim - there are many paid-for calc apps that just use plain floating point math and don't attempt to mimic a proper calculator at all.
There are also free calc apps that DO put the work in to be a proper useful calculator.
- joemi 7y agoI don't think it's bold at all to say one _might_ be, as I purposefully did. I'd think that'd be pretty obvious, actually.
- NikkiA 7y agoMy point is that 'it costs money' is sadly not a way to gauge good calculators on ios, and a lot of the 'costs money' ones don't even have a free option to test/check-the-precision.
- joemi 7y agoNote that I never said cost was a way to gauge good calculators. I was merely answering the question of why one might pay for a calculator app instead of using one of the many free ones. Again, this is why I very deliberately said "might" in all of my statements. By saying "might", I'm also implying "might not"...
- criddell 7y agoFloating point math is good enough for the vast majority of use cases.