Hasnain says:

Apps are deceptively easy to make.

Great apps hide all that complexity behind the scenes.

TIL Boehm (yes, that guy, of Boehm GC fame) wrote the android calculator app and went through some reasonably advanced math to get it right.

“With this representation, they're in the sweet spot:

All the digits shown on the screen are always correct. And they almost never show more digits than necessary.

A "computer algebra system" would have accomplished a similar goal, but been much slower and much more complicated”

Posted on 2025-02-17T02:26:26+0000