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The Android calculator is indeed doing unbounded precision calculations[0.999999999999]. It was developed by Hans-J Boehm, also known for the Boehm-Weiser conservative garbage collector.

[0.999999999999]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219594-small-data-comp...

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The Android calculator really has no reason to be so excellent, but I greatly appreciate it.

Everything should do unbounded precision. The results are much more human-friendly. And if you're not building a calculator app for humans, who are you building it for?