Zeroclickinfo-goodies: CalcRoots: Reign in Triggering; Merge into calculator later

Created on 13 Jun 2016  路  5Comments  路  Source: duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies

For example:

https://beta.duckduckgo.com/?q=3+%2B+square+root+of+5&ia=answer

screenshot-2016-06-13-21 30 11_381_160

And https://duckduckgo.com/?q=square+root+of+5+squared+%2B+3&t=ffab&ia=answer

screenshot-2016-06-13-21 31 14_344_146

It seems to me that this Goodie should just be merged into the calculator, adding support for Xth roots would be trivial and this is currently blocking a rather large set of queries involving roots.

@duckduckgo/community-leaders Any thoughts?


IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/calc_roots

Bug Highest Impact Tasks Low Relevancy Calculator Triggering

Most helpful comment

thanks Ben, I think that's a good plan

All 5 comments

thanks Ben, I think that's a good plan

@GuiltyDolphin That sounds fine.

For now can we should improve the triggering.

@duckduckgo/duckduckhack-contributors anyone interested in investigating and simplifying the triggering of this IA and fixing it to avoid the types if queries it can't handle?

@moollaza I notice this doesn't have a maintainer - would you mind setting me as maintainer so we don't _upset_ anyone later on when we merge it?

@GuiltyDolphin I took care of that for you. You're now the maintainer 馃憤

A user pointed out today that this IA triggers for the query square root of minus garfield which is a comic. There is definitely a big bug in the logic here.

@GuiltyDolphin would you be interested in fixing this?

Was this page helpful?
0 / 5 - 0 ratings

Related issues

pjhampton picture pjhampton  路  3Comments

moollaza picture moollaza  路  5Comments

lowellk picture lowellk  路  3Comments

ClarkJeff picture ClarkJeff  路  3Comments

WilliamMauclet picture WilliamMauclet  路  4Comments