Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
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Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#2Hi HN! This has been posted a few months ago (by someone else), but it wasn't really finished back then. The feedback I got here last time has helped a lot to improve all sorts of things. Looking forward to your comments!
Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13909631
Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#3This is pretty cool, it's one of the rare applications I've used where the things I've tried "just work". For example "10 kg to g", "c", "c to km s^(-1)", "c to km/s" all work intuitively. It's great it works at the command line too.
Something I wish I'd had when I was studying Physics.
Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#4Hi HN! This has been posted a few months ago (by someone else), but it wasn't really finished back then. The feedback I got here last time has helped a lot to improve all sorts of things. Looking forward to your comments! Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13909631
Very well polished. Congrats on finishing it!
I have only one minor issue: the REPL scrolling conflicts with the default scrolling acceleration on macOS. So just a very small movement on the trackpad and it scrolls all the way up or down. I believe this is due the "jquery-mousewheel" plugin [1].
Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#5Looks nice! are you relying on mathjs? I think it has some of the same functionality.
If not, is the conversion logic in an npm package?
Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#6Hi Sharkdp, wonderful product. I think that unit and command autocompletion would be super useful!
Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#7I like this, but would really like a convert-to-base-units function.
≫ sqrt(1/(eps0 mu0)) ->m/s
sqrt(1 / (eps0 × mu0)) -> m / s
= 299833000 m/s
≫ sqrt(mu0/eps0) ->ohm
sqrt(mu0 / eps0) -> Ω
= 377.031 ΩRe: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#8I tried to enter
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Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#9This is pretty cool, it's one of the rare applications I've used where the things I've tried "just work". For example "10 kg to g", "c", "c to km s^(-1)", "c to km/s" all work intuitively. It's great it works at the command line too. Something I wish I'd had when I was studying Physics.
All of these things work in Google, btw. Google has one of the best unit conversion tools, and it's built into the search.
Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#10Looks pretty nice, but no light years? No attoparsecs? You don't even have hogsheads or fortnights!!!!!1!
Still, it's pretty good.