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The software does not allow calculations, but one can use a piped link to a calculation with Google's calculator, with the label as answer, to demonstrate the numbers used in the computation. This way one can check for consistency, see the result with a higher accuracy, and also convenient update the result.

E.g., in the case of the population density in the Netherlands:

[[google:16318199/33883|482/km²]], giving 482/km².

With a suitable browser the evaluated expression pops up, so the link is useful even without following it.

Unfortunately, the result 482 has to be entered manually and consistency is not automatically maintained.