Comment on Don't do the forbidden math
funnystuff97@lemmy.world 7 months agoHuh, I was expecting my phone’s calculator to return i, but it just says it’s undefined. You’d think imaginary numbers should be supported, but I guess not. Maybe some phone calculators do, and some don’t?
paholg@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Lol, the Android calculator says, “Keep it real”.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh wow, that’s a nice touch. I love when devs do things like this to amuse themselves.
paholg@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I mean, it’s kind of funny, but also not a great user experience. If you’re familiar with complex numbers, then you’re left annoyed that it won’t perform the computation. If you’re not familiar with complex numbers, then you don’t get the joke and it’s not a helpful error message.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, but if you’re familiar with complex numbers, you also will have or know how to get a better calculator.
nogrub@lemmy.world 7 months ago
mine just says can’t divide by zero :(