microsoft / microsoft/calculator
Investigate migration of calc engine to BigInteger/BigRational
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- C#
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Description
There are existing BigInteger/BigRational libraries. If there is one at parity with the existing Calculator engine, we can investigate replacing the older engine code.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Begin by locating the existing Calculator engine and identifying the proposed BigInteger/BigRational libraries, then compare their capabilities with the current engine. Done means determining whether a library reaches parity and documenting whether migration is feasible.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100