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A study about black holes that highlights mathematical errors from the very beginning, already mentioned by some scientists in the past, but never really considered seriously. Anot…

Chalk also supports uncertainty : https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/chalk-features.php (combined with arbitrary long numbers and interval arithmetic)

I share a lot of thoughts with that, and built my own calculator, too A calculator that gives right instead of wrong answers https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/chalk-home.php I tried to…

Desktop calculators are the best. Shame on computers ! https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/article/chalk.html#toc-14

Most people didn't understand that my goal was not to benchmark all existing calculator apps. It is on purpose that I did not mention all "pretty good" softwares, because I cannot …

An opportunity to post again my thoughts about software calculators ! https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/article/chalk.html

Let's say that : if you do not use arithmetic interval, at some point your floating point computations will be wrong and misleading if you do not carry information about how much b…

You can achieve that, this is a preference of Chalk about what should be the next input

Just a zip on the web page

RPN is just an option (provided by Chalk). The "minimalist" GUI is just the introduction of the full article. You have to reach https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/article/chalk.html#toc…

Chalk is kind of robust, I am surprise you hit a bug at first use. Go to https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/chalk-contact.php > for bug reports

Thanks ! There were so many things to say that I was afraid nobody would read up to the end. GUI is only the visible part of the iceberg. Number representation (to keep exact value…

Chalk has an option to use RPN

Thanks, I have added some more "mobile compliant" CSS styles.

Even with numbers only, it can still be useful to know how wrong the result is. Chalk keeps track of every inaccuracy when dealing with decimal numbers.

I don't use Emacs, but I feel that people should just have access to a decent calculator without digging developer forums. As good as Emacs Calc is, we can admit that it's unlikely…

I agree, but as good as it is, this is not where people would like to find a good calculator.

Thanks to Show HN I will be given tons of links to softwares I would never have found by myself :-)

You know what ? I was not even aware that it would work ! (Am I the only one to discover that just now ? I am not using Spotlight very often) It's kind of cool, but I can still fin…

We will somewhat disagree, partly because I can't help using calculators as a scientist, so my opinion is particularly biased. However, I don't like the trend to hide everything th…

Quickfix : I have added a button to hide the TOC. Not sure if it fits mobile screens anyway.

Even if it proves me wrong, it still makes me happy that some work is done on this tool. (I will fix the article)

Hi, >I wonder if the author considered an input method where keypresses translate directly into a rendered equation? Personally, I don't like such systems, because I always end up …

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