Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

• theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think the concern is that you can come up with a number of formulas that will get correct answers for some combinations of values and not others.

  If you do not understand the logic of the formula, and what each function does, how do you verify they are correct and will always give you the results you think they will? Double check every result in it’s entirety?

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  • Lightfire228@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s my thinking

    If you know what you’re doing, it’s significantly easier to do it yourself

    You at least have some reassurance it’s correct (or at least thought through)

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