The calculator makes me mad!

grahamc

I like to use kagi / my search bar as a mediocre calculator. But yours is just way too smart, and it drives me CRAZY.

For example, I don't want simplified fractions by default:

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...and I don't want scientific notation:

I just want dumb numbers. Maybe the fancier variation is useful sometimes, but it is always less interesting to me than the boring version.

leftium

Fancy smart numbers seem to be a result of the (Wolfram Alpha) Answer Box Widget You should be able to disable the Answer Box Widget from Settings > Search Widgets, ~~but that widget is not in the list of switches.~~ it's called "Summary Box"

There is a work-around for 7/321 using the calculator widget: https://kagi.com/search?q=calc+7%2F231

Unfortunately that calculator does not understand 8.5pb to gb

8.5petabytes to gigabytes does work, though! https://kagi.com/search?q=calc+8.5petabytes+to+gigabytes

If you just need to see the results, the autocomplete shows results in the "dumb number" format:

leftium

update: There is a way to disable the Wolfram Alpha widget: it's called "Summary Box." Then the calculator widget takes over for math expressions.