Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
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Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#2This is a pretty cool idea.
One thing that would make it more useful to me, though much more difficult to implement, is that when you click a reused value, it store a reference to that result, so if you change the calculations for that result, all the references change also.
For example, that way I could have some initial parameters up top, and use those in a complicated calculation, with the end result changing if I change those parameters.
Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#3Pretty neat.
Curious if it's out of score or valuable to make the output/input behave more like a variable than copy/paste? e.g. line 1 is "2 + 3", so you click on the result, "5" and you use that in a new expression: "5 + 20". However, if you go and change the original line to "7 + 3" the second expression could update to "10 + 20"
Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#4I like it, I'm taking the AI for Robotics class on Udacity, and I have a chromebook as my primary machine, I'm going to bookmark this and likely use it most of the time. Does it support math functions like power, exponential, etc? and how?
Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#5The name means "dick" in Finnish. Oh well, there are thousands of languages spoken in the world, can't check them all!
...Actually, that would be a damn useful site: doesthiswordmeansomethingdirtyinanobscurelanguage.com
Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#6The name means "dick" in Finnish. Oh well, there are thousands of languages spoken in the world, can't check them all! ...Actually, that would be a damn useful site: doesthiswordmeansomethingdirtyinanobscurelanguage.com
Build it now.
Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#7I really like this. The only issue that I found in my short time playing with it is that a/0 returns infinity rather than undefined. 0/0 does return NaN, though.
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#8Reminds me of http://tydligapp.com/ . I always thought it would make a great desktop app.
Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#9This is a pretty cool idea. One thing that would make it more useful to me, though much more difficult to implement, is that when you click a reused value, it store a reference to that result, so if you change the calculations for that result, all the references change also. For example, that way I could have some initial parameters up top, and use those in a complicated calculation, with the end result changing if I…
Bingo. Then add plotting functionality for ranges of those values.
Re: Show HN: Kalu – Calculator concept for long and inter-linked calculations
#10The name means "dick" in Finnish. Oh well, there are thousands of languages spoken in the world, can't check them all! ...Actually, that would be a damn useful site: doesthiswordmeansomethingdirtyinanobscurelanguage.com
I'm rather surprised that doesn't exist already, actually.