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I enjoyed the article, but it seems Apple has since improved their calculator app slightly. The first example is giving me the correct result today. However, the second example with the “Underflow” result is still occurring.

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I've just tried the first example on iOS 18.3.1 and it absolutely reproduces perfectly for me.

Oh no- I stand corrected. I tried it again and you are right. I had just woken up when I did my initial test and must have typoed something. I can no longer edit or delete my original comment :(

I remember hearing stories that for a time there was no engineer inside Apple responsible for the iOS Calculator.

Now it seems to be revived as there were some updates to it, but those also removed one of my favourite features -> tapping equals button no longer repeats the last operation.

They fortunately fixed the repeating feature in iOS 18.3. Though it does seem a bit ridiculous that something like this is tied to the entire OS version.

Oh, nice - thanks! So it was a bug afterall.

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