Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app
nef@slrpnk.net 4 weeks agoThis looks mostly right. The precision slider is definitely only for the output, not calculations. The (up - 5/4 - down) is (always round up - round anything less than 0.5 down - always round down)
What I’d like to know is how the A and F settings are different.
Benjaben@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Auto to me (if A is Auto) sounds like it’d truncate unnecessary digits (4 or 4.0 instead of 4.0000) maybe? Whereas if F is Full then you’d get full precision?
Idk seems logical but not especially useful, probably not a great guess.
lime@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
i’ve never seen one of these display decimals like that, it doesn’t seem like something that would need a setting.
Benjaben@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah I don’t think my comment is right lol.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I can say that A seems to be Auto in the way you think but I haven’t figured out what criteria it has for this automation. Maybe there’s a way I could figure it out. I’m not a maths kind of guy (had pretty bad teachers in school) so it’s all honestly above my head. Shamefully enough.
Benjaben@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nothing to be ashamed of my friend, cool little device you’ve got here!