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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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[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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