The Windows Calculator is not good enough for every task, many people need more
than calculate with 32 significant digits.
Let us experiment and calculate 3
10000
both with the Windows Calculator and Googol+ then compare the outputs.
Windows Calculator (0.3 sec):
Googol+ (0.1 sec):
Amazing... this is what arbitrary precision calculators are intended for.
We have seen arbitrary precision calculators able to run under Microsoft Windows,
but
all of them are barebones and appear to have been ported from Unix to run on a
console that emulates MSDOS.
Googol+ is a long leap forward in every respect.
First notice how the interface is radically different from what you got used to:
Data is inputted and outputted into large boxes not on a single line edit box as
usual. You can enter data using the keyboard or preferably by pasting, there are no 0-9 buttons to enter digits into the boxes because we are dealing with big numbers
and buttons increase the probability of errors. Notice that low precision software
calculators, like the Windows Calculator, imitate the design of physical hand calculators
but we can not imitate a physical arbitrary precision hardware calculator because
have never seen one.
Probably, you will take a couple of minutes to get used to this interface, then you will feel at least as comfortable with it as with the Windows Calculator interface.