If the earliest sports were a way to practice skills needed for hunting or warfare, then making an e-sport out of spreadsheets is going back to the roots of sports. It’s practicing skills needed for your daily job.

I’m using KCalc version 24.05.0 but I suppose it’s similar enough to your version.

I typed in the following in simple mode:

<value> * 10^-8

I even got results with the following:

<value>e-8

With pushing buttons in science mode I managed to replicate what you’ve observed, so I guess it’s indeed a bug? However, typing something like either of the two sequences above would give you the desired result.

As an aside, it seems like typing things directly into the input text box like sin(30) can be done in any mode. I don’t know if it can be generalized though, and I don’t know if all of the buttons in Science and Stat modes have a plaintext equivalent you can just type in.

… I actually use Arch. Sorry.

But really, I would have gone with EndeavourOS (instead of Arch) if it were not for my friend who really strongly advocated for Arch (even installing it for me—or rather, converting my Manjaro install into an Arch one).

If I’ve had any regrets in my Linux journey, it’s choosing Manjaro instead of EndeavourOS as my introduction to Arch-based distros.

I switched to Wayland the moment my distro went moved to KDE Plasma 6 because according to my logic: if things are going to be broken and I’m going to adjust to them anyways, I might as well do it all at once: shock therapy style.

Plasma 6 broke a lot of my desktop customization, but that is to be expected. And Wayland? It has been surprisingly okay. I am experiencing some keyboard-related problems that I can’t even begin to track down (sometimes the keyboard flat out refuses to work for certain programs, sometimes it’s the numpad). However, I am not sure if it’s really related to Wayland, so I’m withholding judgement.