HoldOnAMinute5 hours ago
We had this in the early 1990's, it was called Mathematica [0]
[0] - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time...
hoistbypetard3 hours ago
It was eye-wateringly expensive and required a high-end system, though. It was good, and I liked it too, but it's not the same as being usable from pretty much anywhere for $0.
kingkongjaffa5 hours ago
Not just running right there and re-rendering in the browser you didn't.
HoldOnAMinute5 hours ago
We got alone fine for decades without browsers.
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proee5 hours ago
Great tool. Reminds me of Instacalc, which has bee around forever.
shnpln5 hours ago
This is pretty cool, I have a long running hobby project to make something similar in the terminal. https://github.com/ShaneMarusczak/rm-repl
meken3 hours ago
I was using Apple Notes for some “math thinking” the other week. A killer feature for me would be an easy way to input various math Unicode characters (I was just copy and pasting them).
WillAdams3 hours ago
There are various stylus-based tools which do that sort of thing:
https://www.inftyproject.org/en/software.html
(I used to use the math input palette w/ a Wacom ArtZ on my NeXT Cube for transcribing math documents in college)
freetime23 hours ago
Pretty cool. It looks like it also uses local storage - so if you navigate away and come back (or just refresh the page) all of your expressions are still there. A lot of paid productivity apps that I use don't even manage that.
Jun84 hours ago
Pretty cool but handling large numbers is pretty limited: chokes on 171! Or 5^5^5.
mikeocool3 hours ago
If your in the Apple ecosystem, Soulver is a similar app to this that is really great.
I still like it better than the math built into notes for anything beyond basics.
avel3 hours ago
$39?! I'll stick with qalc!
PerseusLynx5 hours ago
Cool project. I wonder what benefits it has over using good old Desmos Calculator.
cybrox5 hours ago
It would be cool if it could be part of a text notebook. E.g. extended Mathjax syntax in Markdown that allows plot() or derive()
Krastan3 hours ago
I've been using notepadcalculator.com for years and it's been great
prenx4x5 hours ago
Similar natural language calculator - https://hissab.io
waynecochran4 hours ago
handled i^i outa the box ...