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iOS 11 Bug: Typing 1+2+3 Quickly in the Calculator App Won't Get You 6

Altis said:
Sometimes I get out my old iPhone 4S and iPad 1 (1st generation!) on iOS 6 and 5, respective, just to remind myself how good it was.

Despite having much slower hardware, iOS flies on them and registers input very consistently.

The best I ever used was an iPhone 5 on iOS 6 -- probably the fastest iOS device there has ever been.
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I had a 4s and stuck with iOS 6 for a long, long time. I eventually caved due to software requirements and I've lived with that pain ever since. What a pile of garbage iOS 7 was on a 4s or earlier device. I still think Apple should allow anyone with that old of a device to revert to iOS 6, or at the very least, give them a "lite" version so it returns to something that you can actually USE.
 
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JamesIV said:
(…) So ridiculous because Apple had a good running calculator app in iOS 10. (…).
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I am not sure if this is the case. I am still running iOS 10 and the calculator did the same (mistake) when entering rapidly 1+2+3 ! (6, 6, 23, 24, 6..)
the same, if you (means I : ) enter
1+2+3+4+5 (33,33, 42, 15, 33, …)

Apple should simply rename this "Calculator app" into "Random Lottery generator" : D
 
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C DM said:
There must have been no software issues when Steve Jobs was around.
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Well that says absolutely nothing. How about something factual, entertain with an actual fact , where under jobs a similar error was present with a calculator app.

Otherwise don't rubbish him by comparing software under him with something like this .

I don't see how stating that software has "bugs" is an excuse to make blanket meaningless statements. Less excuses and more facts ?

So.... do you think this is a critical, very high, high, medium , low or minor bug....
 
#CalculatorGate?

I just tried and I got 24, but you can have a wrong result trying to type any other number.
The animation is way too slow. Even if I try to type at a normal rate (still pretty fast, but that's how I type on my iPhone) I sometimes get the wrong behaviour.
Looks like the guy who wrote Calculator.app is a slow typer, even if he spends most of its days using an iPhone. I wonder why him and the QA guys at Apple didn't notice the bug
 
MH01 said:
Well that says absolutely nothing. How about something factual, entertain with an actual fact , where under jobs a similar error was present with a calculator app.

Otherwise don't rubbish him by comparing software under him with something like this .

I don't see how stating that software has "bugs" is an excuse to make blanket meaningless statements. Less excuses and more facts ?

So.... do you think this is a critical, very high, high, medium , low or minor bug....
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Sounds like then the statements describing the perfection and utopia that were supposedly there with Steve Jobs are equally meaningless blanket statements that say absolutely nothing then.
 
recoil80 said:
#CalculatorGate?

I just tried and I got 24, but you can have a wrong result trying to type any other number.
The animation is way too slow. Even if I try to type at a normal rate (still pretty fast, but that's how I type on my iPhone) I sometimes get the wrong behaviour.
Looks like the guy who wrote Calculator.app is a slow typer, even if he spends most of its days using an iPhone. I wonder why him and the QA guys at Apple didn't notice the bug
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jkruehne said:
That's the real question, doesn't matter which app is in the focus …
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The assumption there being that it wasn't noticed vs noticed but not (yet) addressed.
 
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Joni: "Some of our testresults became obscured by the notch, which we'll investigate first..."
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Because we - the users - don’t give a crap if it’s a calculation error or an animation error, especially in such a simple project that was working perfectly. If I do 1+2+3 I expect to have 6 as a result. I don’t give a crap why it’s giving me a different result. Don’t try to minimize this.
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The depth people go to defend Apple is amazing. Why can’t some just admit Apple messsed this up. Sometimes function is far more important than fashion. I love my Apple toys. Wish they would stop rushing out stuff
 
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adrianlondon said:
Err ...

sin(π°) = 0.05
sin(π rad) = 0

Press the Rad/Deg toggle.
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Thanks, I didn’t notice. I’m pretty relieved that it’s not another problem with the app.

So it seems calculator apps default to degrees while desktop applications expect radians by default. I assumed it followed the convention used by every desktop application I’ve ever used.
 
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Animations are overrated really. Btw, isn't a calculator the first project you get when studying CS?

It was mine.
 
And I thought I was just 'adding it wrong'. I was running into this several times since iOS 11. I thought I was just tapping too quickly...Glad it's not just me.
 
dan9700 said:
We can all say ios 11 is nothing but a joke, still no icloud messaging still app store problems still random ui glitches and stuff like calculator bug just cant get fixed in months of testing, what has happened to apple i think android is actually becoming more stable now days and apple is losing its optimisation, but we are all stuck in the apple eco system
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You better run before those who kept mocking you all through the betas find you!

Guess who was right after all...

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Rogifan said:
So it’s a bug that Apple is aware of and is fixing. But let’s make it a front page story because clicks.

Meanwhile the Pixel 2XL has major display issues including burn-in
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/24/16519530/google-pixel-2xl-screen-issues-deep-and-unfixable

and the Pixel 2 has high pitched whine and clicking noises.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...sue-a-high-pitched-whine-and-clicking-noises/
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Yes and Apple had antenna gate , bend gate.

We’re not talking about hardware problems for the first month of sale of a new product, we’re talking about a calculater.app, the simplest app on iOS.

Cmon
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Wildkraut said:
Now we know why the iPad has no Calculator.
Seems to be an unsolveable problem for Apple.

But wait a minute... hey new emoji’s!
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Came for the memes... wasn’t disappointed
 
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Phonephreak said:
The depth people go to defend Apple is amazing. Why can’t some just admit Apple messsed this up. Sometimes function is far more important than fashion. I love my Apple toys. Wish they would stop rushing out stuff
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Agreed. An intern could’ve worked on this bug and fixed it in an hour at most.
 
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