Nov 2, 2026, 3:00 AMApparently now in Siri in macOS 27 (which has replaced Spotlight as the thing you get on ⌘Space), when you type a mathematical expression, you get an incorrect result in large text at the top, and then the correct result in smaller text underneath. Awesome.
Nov 2, 2026, 6:35 AMEveryone in my replies telling me it showed me the correct result for 8.1/3: yes well done, I’m so glad you’ve figured out what caused the bug, your badge for being a very special boy who is cleverer than the other people in the replies is in the mail. It’s still a shitty sloppy bug in a basic function of a headline feature of the OS that breaks something that used to work just fine.
And no, it wasn’t a split-second UI glitch, it stayed the way it appears in the screenshot until I exited, did the same thing when I tried it again, and only on the third try did it update properly.
@daisy It's too bad computers aren't any good at basic arithmetic
Nov 2, 2026, 3:09 AM@daisy computers, that can do math?? Maybe with 50 trillion dollars of funding and a decade of research :neobot_thinking:
@daisy apparently not? 8.1/3 is 2.7, this just looks like the UI failed to update after the last keystroke. That’s a low-quality bug if so but it’s not an “AI bad at maths” thing.
Nov 2, 2026, 3:23 AM@daisy@cloudisland.nz the classic vibecoding technique: implement the same feature twice in slightly different ways
@daisy It divided 8.1/3. It skipped the 9.
@daisy Even when that exact calculation gets the right answer in both locations there’s a staggering amount of lag for such a basic function. It’s Apple Intelligence.
Nov 2, 2026, 5:10 AM@abstractcode @daisy give it a break, computers have historically found maths to be hard and slow task
Nov 2, 2026, 5:56 AM@abstractcode @daisy calling me large, rude
@daisy Wait, what the fuck is going on? I'm on 26.6. It seems that it skips the dot altogether, but still provides a result.
Dumbassery of the highest order.
@peterfr what's correct?
@petrikas sorry, not "correct" correct. see previous reply.
seems you're on *comma* as well
8.1/27 = 3
8,1/27 = 0,3
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@peterfr Firstly, I have never seen a '.' as thousand separator in Europe. If a thousand separator is used, shouldn't it be used only when there's at least a thousand?
@peterfr Seems that selecting any of the bottom two provides an intuitive answer.
@petrikas not the thousands separator, the decimal separator.
@peterfr I'm lost, let's break it down.
In EU both 8.2 and 8,2 are the same number.
The difference only comes when we're dealing with thousands.
8.200,0 (never seen it written this way)
8 200,0 (possibly deprecated, rarely used)
8,200.0 (acceptable, still confusing)
8 200.0 (common)
Right?
@petrikas 8.200,0 is how German schools teach it. It's common there.
@daisy For me it briefly shows =27 and then jumps to =0.207...