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Comment by orbital-decay

It's not even about features. Calculators are mostly useful for napkin math - if I can't afford an error, I'll take some full-fledged math software/package and write a program that will be debuggable, testable, and have version control.

But for some reason the authors of calculator apps never optimize them for the number of keypresses, unlike Casio/TI/HP. It's a lost art. Even a simple operator repetition is a completely alien concept for new apps. Even the devs of the apps that are supposed to be snappy, like speedcrunch, seem to completely misunderstand the niche of a calculator, are they not using it themselves? Calculator is neither a CAS nor a REPL.

For Android in particular, I've only found two non-emulated calculators worth using for that, HiPER Calc and 10BA by Segitiga.Pro. And I'm not sure I can trust the correctness.

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