The Picard Maneuvercake to [email protected]English • 8 months agoHow hard could it be?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up11.37K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•8 months agobc 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoI mean personally if I need a heavy duty calculator I’ll just use python or something
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.
I mean personally if I need a heavy duty calculator I’ll just use python or something