My first computer was a hand-me-down Toshiba T3100. I was around ten years old at the time, in the late 90’s. The portable computer, was way far different from any computer I’ve seen thus far. It also came with a printer, but I don’t think I managed to make it work. The portable computer only had a 20MiB hard drive, and memory that can be measured in kibibytes. Its hard drive has already been reformatted, and had MS-DOS 6.21, Windows 3.11, as well as some DOS games installed in it.
I didn’t really bother with the DOS games, but I’ve had a lot of fun playing Chips Challenge on Windows. However, a huge chunk of time went into me just messing around with QBasic. Later on, when I had programming classes, I installed Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, and Turbo C in there for homework and projects.
It could have lasted far longer but I couldn’t resist myself opening it up. I didn’t have a lot of trouble opening it up, but had a bit of trouble putting it back together. It didn’t survive my prying though, and it got shoved into the storage.
Just recently, a few years ago, I found out that it’s a bit of a collector’s item, and was even expensive back when it was new. I couldn’t have known it at that time, nor would I have cared, but I still regret not taking care of it a bit more.
I’m using KCalc version 24.05.0 but I suppose it’s similar enough to your version.
I typed in the following in simple mode:
<value> * 10^-8I even got results with the following:
<value>e-8With pushing buttons in science mode I managed to replicate what you’ve observed, so I guess it’s indeed a bug? However, typing something like either of the two sequences above would give you the desired result.
As an aside, it seems like typing things directly into the input text box like
sin(30)can be done in any mode. I don’t know if it can be generalized though, and I don’t know if all of the buttons in Science and Stat modes have a plaintext equivalent you can just type in.