I call it that because I don’t know what else to call it lol
So, on the typical calculator that you buy for 99c at a dollar store, the ones that are solar powered and whatnot, when you type “99” and then hit the + key, it won’t show the +… then you type another number and the 99 vanishes. You then hit enter, and it sums the two numbers together.
Meanwhile, on a typical graphing calculator, such as a TI-84+, the same keystroke sequence will net something that looks like this:
This has multiple benefits–
-You can easily see if you’ve made a mistake before you hit Enter
-You can easily FIX those mistakes
-You can have the calculator follow PEMDAS, for example, you could throw “2(5-3)+4²/6” at it and it’ll know what to do and solve it easily:
The reason I bring this up:
My phone can do this. While it doesn’t have squares or square roots, it does have the ability to do this:
And meanwhile kcalc is over here like:
Yes, I can see perfectly.
Actually putting in the keystrokes needed FOR ““2(5-3)+4²/6” does actually give you 6.6666repeating… as long as you sneak in a x between 2 and ( because it doesn’t understand that “2(5-3)” means “multiply 2 by the difference between 5 and 3”, and instead you’ll end up typing “25”.
But YOU CAN’T SEE THAT THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE DOING until you hit Enter and see that you do actually get the right result– because the display you get on kcalc is literally just the same single-number can’t-see-the-operators display as that 99c dollar store calculator.
I’m not asking for a full TI-84 emulator. I just wanna see what I’m doing x3
