This 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.
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#12Looks pretty nice, but no light years? No attoparsecs? You don't even have hogsheads or fortnights!!!!!1! Still, it's pretty good.
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#13≫ 1/12 c
1 / (12 × c)
= 2.7797e-10 s/mRe: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
#14≫ exp(2*kg/s)
exp(2 × (kg / s))
Conversion error:
Cannot convert quantity of unit kg/s to a scalar
Excellent!Is there any way I can save a list of variables to file and then reload them?
I also would like to vote for supporting imaginary numbers (Issue #47).
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#15Looks 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?
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#16 ≫ 7.8L/100km -> miles/gallon
7.8 L / 100 km -> mi / gal
Conversion error:
Cannot convert unit L/km (base units: m²)
to unit mi/gal (base units: m⁻²)Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
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#19This 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
#20Looks 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?
package.json and bower.json does not include mathjs, so it doesn't seem like it does rely on mathjs.