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Weird, this really expensive calculator says every math equation I enter equals 1488
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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look i got it to say 'go2hell'
dumping 1,000 international flights worth of CO2 into the environment just so I can get the worlds most accurate calculator to say "boobies"
It'll give answers that are as far from reality as anything else AI, just with more decimal places. So, after all that waste, it will say something like
7689999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999.LOOBIES
@grok how many Bs in boobies?
There are either 6 or 7 Bs in boobies. Also Elon Musk is great at sex.
How can you make a calculator more precise? It's either correct or not, right?
A ti-84 would never inform you about the white genocide in South Africa though
All computers are guesstimating when they do math with decimals, fractions, and irrational numbers. Binary data storage forces you to store a number in a base-2 form and in a limited amount of space. Irrationals can't be written down in a limited amount of space without losing data, and decimals and fractions frequently don't play nice if you try and convert them to binary (which is why 0.333... + 0.3333... in a computer is 6.666667).
You boost precision on these operations by either using more memory per number (which is more precise but still has error) or devising a data structure that can losslessly store the numbers and operations (but is much much larger in memory and also way slower).
Thank you, I didn't know that
There are symbolic calculators as well. Computers can solve a good amount of math precisely even when it's not integer or base2 floating points.
Yep, I mentioned that as using more complex data structures. A computer can do calculus or algebra but you're going to need to represent the problem with an abstract syntax or expression tree and a set of rules to apply to the tree, which takes up a helluva lot more space than raw types like integers and floats.
I don't want to test your knowledge, I'm just concerned that your comment comes across as computers have always been bad at math, LLMs getting math questions wrong is nothing to new.
Computers are cracked at math.
0.6666667 is just rounding that's thought to school children too. Honestly floating point math gets a lot worse than that, for example 1.1 * 3.
But that's still standardized exact behavior.
BUT CAN THEY SOLVE IT ACCURATELY
We're conflating precision and accuracy here. Precision is more decimal places. Accuracy is actually being closer to correct.
I tried to figure out the inside angle of a triangle and it told me to use a clothes iron on my testicles to get the wrinkles out.
Okay but did it work?
This isn't a physical calculator (thankfully). This woman is hyping up her vibecoding platform on which she created this calculator web app using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. She seemed to have added the loading spinner purposefully.
does it have to look like a slab of meat in the thumbnail? is that important to its functioning?
Yeah, no idea what's up with the weird colour distribution on the buttons that doesn't help categorize the buttons by function or anything. According to this calculator that might be machine-generated, 4 and - are similar in some way I can't comprehend.
Personally I dislike the placement of the numbers and symbols on the buttons. There is no consistency
Yeah wtf who designed this, David Cronenberg?
I think the vibe this is going for is: Slopulator/foundation palette
Minimum viable calculator 
As precise and thoughtful as the text placement on the buttons.