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It seems absurd to make the default behavior incorrect because older cheap calculators did the wrong thing. This isn't like making an incompatible change to a p
by dhosek 6y ago
It seems absurd to make the default behavior incorrect because older cheap calculators did the wrong thing. This isn't like making an incompatible change to a programming language to fix an incorrect behavior, this is more like if the designer of a new programming language decided to make 1+2*3 give nine because his cheap desktop calculator did the same.
- treesprite82 6y agoI've found that a surprising number of people (outside of fields like math, engineering, programming) are used to the idea of entering an operation and having it applied to the current value. E.G: pressing the [√] button immediately square roots the current number, pressing [X][2] doubles the current number, etc. It's a different paradigm to using the buttons to enter a full expression then pressing [=] to evaluate it, but I don't think it's accurate to call it "the wrong thing" - just that the button presses aren't transcribing to the equation you expect (the equation actually displayed by Windows 10 calculator is now accurate).