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How hard could it be? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A fucking calculator needs megabytes to run? And I'm not talking about a full fledged graphic scientific calculator. I'm talking about a basic one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Gnome calculator uses 103m, it's loading style sheets for themes, UI libraries that make it look nice and modern, scientific calculator features, keyboard shortcuts, nice graphical settings menu, touch screen and screen reader support etc

I don't think in this day and age for all the niceties people are used to that's unreasonable.

Also other calculators are available, some are bloated but I'm sure there's a rust or C one out there somewhere that uses a fraction of that with the bare minimum feature set

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean personally if I need a heavy duty calculator I'll just use python or something