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The 'embarrassing' discovery lurking on your phone

Mikala Theocharous
Mikala Theocharous

If you are in need of a good laugh, open up your Calculator app's history.

TikTok creator @Ali.Deht started it all, posted a video with the caption "my boyfriend grabs my phone looking for messages...but there's something in there even worse" before cutting to a screenshot of her Calculator app.

The image shows the equation "10-6."

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The trend started after TikTok creator (@Ali.Deht) posted a video with the caption "my boyfriend grabs my phone looking for messages...but there's something in there even worse" before cutting to a screenshot of the calculator app.

If you are in need of a good laugh, open up your Calculator app's history.  tiktok

"Nothing is more embarrassing than my calculator history," she captioned the video.

Yes – in case you didn't already know, your Calculator app has a 'history' function that displays all your recent calculations, and it's incredibly humbling.

TikToker users commented under the video with screenshots of their own calculator history, showing similarly easy equations.

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Everyone has at least one embarrasingly easy calculation in their calculator app history.  Supplied

"I clear my calculator history faster than a man clears his search history," one person wrote.

One screenshot posted under the video showed "5+5+2" while another showed "200+200."

Others commented that they "hate math" so they use the calculator app because they "just have to be sure," while others wrote "it's always good to check."

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"Trust me, you're not the only one," another person said.

When using the Calculator app is so quick and easy, we had a suspicion most people default to using their phones to do basic maths, despite how shameful it may be.

I myself am guilty of it, and was greeted by an embarrassing series of basic equations when I opened my history.

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Embarrasing calcuations

We asked around the office for some of the most embarrassing calculations. Supplied

My top contender: 28 minus 8.

I then asked my colleagues to share some of their most embarrassing calculations.

"I'm ashamed," one colleague wrote, before sending me a screenshot that read 36 minus 6.

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Another co-worker sent a screenshot that read 11 minus 7, while another owned up to calculating 2 plus 7.5.

Other honourable mentions included one calculation for 90 divided by 3, 875 minus 300, as well as a hilarious 120 plus 1.

The calculator app is clearly a vital part of our daily lives, but let's be honest, it's probably making us dumber.

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