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Calculations fail if your browser locale uses number formats incompatible with en-US.

E.g. the "How many weekdays in a month?" (near the top of the page) calculation remains blank for me.

Changing the input from "*5" to "4.333333 * 5" makes it work -- the outcome of the previous step is "4,333333" (comma, not dot), breaking the next step...



Thanks for reporting this, I'll work on it.

In the meantime, there's a workaround you can use to change the locale by entering the following in the JavaScript console:

  localStorage['locale'] = 'en-US'


The pokemon bd/sp games suffer from a similar issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB2C8q42X64


This should now work regardless of your locale. Please let me know if you notice any more bugs!


ans * 5 also works.




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