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I usually use Mathematica for this kind of thing.
I can do a decent amount of this in Notebooks or the terminal with Wolframscript and I'm not limited to simple things either.
I'm sure this tool is better if you just need something really simple as it is much cheaper and certainly lighter weight than Mathematica.
I wrote https://dedo.io/ as a web version of this, since there's no good equivalent for linux
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Watch out: > $22 for lunch + 10% sales tax Displays $32.00 instead of $24.20 or something. Other issues: it does not support units on the right nor euros (€). Nice anyway :-)
To be pedantic, 10% = 0.10, which is has no unit, so it can't be added to a dollar amount.
- Soulver, according to the screenshots (and the goal of this project seems to match Soulver's behavior),
- the calculator on my phone,
- KRunner, the launcher in KDE, and KCalc, its calculator
- gcalc, the Gnome calculator
- qalc, that shows "25 * (110 * percent) = 27,5".
- The TI-106 solar calculator that I happen to have [1].
Thinking about it, we are probably talking about some kind of "+ %" operator, where x + y % = x + x × y / 100.
Interestingly, 10% = 0 for the TI-106 (but 25*10% = 2.5). % alone does not seem to mean anything for it.
This little calculator will probably outlive me.
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Seconded (though I'm tentatively switching to dc[0], reverse polish notation ftw), can anyone who has used both Numi and Soulver point out the differences between the two? They look super similar to me. [0] https://www.computerhope.com/unix/udc.htm
I like dc too, and wrote this plugin for Vim: https://github.com/fcpg/vim-colddeck The power of old tools :)
$ . calc.sh
$ * 4 5
20
$ / 21 3
7
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Why would anyone buy Soulver outside the Mac App Store? Any compelling new features that warrants the higher price and risk?
> Why would anyone buy [any app] outside the Mac App Store? I almost never buy an app from the Mac App Store when it's also available directly. I'd rather that the developer gets to keep the extra 30%. Free apps I typically get from the store when available for the convenience of the updating system (though sparkle has made non-app store app updating pretty painless). I don't find v3 a compelling upgrade for me but w…
Unpopular opinion, but I always try to buy Apps from the Mac App Store. It is easy to purchase and with buyer protection. You can easily install the app on another Mac and it updates automatically and all my apps are in the same place with just one account. But most importantly, Mac App Store Apps must run in a sandbox which is much more secure, than just downloading an app from the internet which might run with root privileges on your Mac.
I did purchase Soulver 3 though because I wanted to support the developer as I have been using Soulver 2 almost daily for 10 years. But sure enough, the in-app purchase experience did not work and crashed when going to PayPal. Ended up purchasing through the web-site. The downside now, is that my Soulver 3 App has megabytes of Paddle API frameworks embedded in it that is not used, and Little Snitch reports that Soulver 3 tries to connect to paddle 2 times every freaking time I start the app. Very annoying and unnecessary.
Soulver 3 has actually been a bit of a disappointment. They rewrote the parser and math engine in Swift and a lot of functionality has been lost in the process. I'm sure this will be addressed in further releases, but for now, it has no iCloud sharing and you cannot share documents with the iOS app. Bit flicking operators does not work anymore, which was so useful for programming. It has gained support for date time calculation which is very nice, like 'today + 30 days', but Numi does this better and also has a 'now' variable for current time you can do calculations with. The new Soulver 3 UI could be better and I especially find it annoying that the window has a rather large fixed min-width and I also don't like the different color for the right column. Numi is a a copy of Soulver, but has bypassed the original. Unfortunately, I found Numi after I purchased Soulver 3, but I have ditched Soulver 3 for Numi. Numi has more functionality, looks much better and has fewer bugs. Edit: I don't like that Numi is not available on the App Store either. Numi is created by a developer from Belarus, which is a country only slightly better than DPRK and I would very much like to have Numi in a sandbox.
I personally use Numi, which is very similar. I like the ability to assign variables and reuse them (and change the value of the variable on the fly, instantly redoing all other calculations). https://numi.io/
I use tydig[1] on my iPad which is really nice. Especially being able to drag around results with links pointing back to them and then graphing things as needed. [1] http://tydligapp.com/
Really like https://calca.io
This looks neat, but I'm struggling with the landing page. There are a bunch of animated gifs that show off how Soulver works - great! But just as they finish the exercise and show the result, they immediately blank and restart. I don't get any time to figure out what just happened. It's incredibly frustrating. Put a 5s pause at the "complete" frame.
The funny thing is that Excel would basically meet this need perfectly if it didn’t take 5 seconds to open.
This. Excel as a notepad would be great. Don't know enough about windows desktop development to implement my own solution, but I'm surprised that nothing currently exists.