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Oh cool, you did this in Ionic! How has the experience been with it?
I did some searching in this space as I wanted a proper unit aware calculator for my phone. I ended up finding Frink and rink; but Frink's android app is atrocious, and Rink doesn't have one. I hope something like hissab can leverage Frink's unit list with a better interface. I'd like to see an effort to add common constants. My standard test for an app like this is getting the diameter of earth in light seconds; whi…
looks good!
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There is, for sure, a small learning curve, but for professionals that do lots of calculations day to day, it can save time for them, specially with variables and reusing a previous result. This can then act like a simple spreadsheet, where you can play with numbers and see the results updating on the entire page. Another advantage of Hissab over traditional calculators or even google search is the ability to see all…
> Generative AI is quite bad a doing math and I would not believe the results it "guesses". Generally speaking, it's true. AI is quite bad at arithmetic. But as AI started learning to use tools things can be different. Haven't really looked into this but I think ChatGPT with WolframAlpha plugin ( https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-plugin-chatgpt/ ) can be helpful. People won't use generative models when they already hav…
Thanks for checking Hissab and your feedback!
Calculating with natural language may seem promising, but is not as productive as traditional calculators, especially when the "natural language" is actually a fixed grammar resembling natural language instead of employing fully extensible natural language (with AI, for example). According to its documentation, this calculator has really limited capabilities. and it even charges for functions like calculating average…
Sometimes you don’t want to solve problems in the abstract, you just want to know what a ten year million dollar loan is worth at eight percent interest or something natural language like that. I type it into Google and it usually unrolls it and calculates it pretty well or finds a site for the problem. I hope this calculator has a good natural language vocabulary.