I feel that with non-standard syntax like $100 + 25% tip it become very confusing whether the answer would be 100.25 or 125. I’ll end up spending a lot of time trying to verify the answer.
Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
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#162A paid, Mac only app which could fairly easily be implemented as a plugin to any popular text editor... I'm not sure I understand the appeal - what am I missing here, please? :)
This is like comparing Dropbox to "having an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem". Yes, you could. Or you could use something that's polished and works, with a clean UI and years of real world testing.
> Yes, you could. Or you could use something that's polished and works, with a clean UI and years of real world testing.
It doesn't work on most computers, of course.
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#163I never knew there were so many people into notebook/repl style calculators, for lack of an accepted term. How did these never take over from the skeuomorphic style? There clearly seems to be a market below the spreadsheet/Jupyter notebook use case.
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#164Has anyone found anything remotely comparable for Android? I'd love to have a Soulver or Numi analog on my phone. I don't even need it to sync with anything.
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#165I 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/
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
The main difference is that you can easily drag n drop line result anywhere inside the document with Soulver for more complex computations. With Numi you are forced to make up variable names, which is silly.
I have written to Numi author about this a few months ago and he replied he wants to add this feature to Numi but I haven’t heard any news about that since. I am not following Numi closely, though.
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#166Just like emacs in the 1980´s.
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#167i have been using numi for the longest time ever. i have never personally attempted to use Soulver
https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/55625
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#168i only use Soulver but i will have to try numi
https://finance.uonbi.ac.ke/node/55626
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#169I 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/
There is also Calca on the Mac.
I prefer Calca. I just find variables easier to deal with. I used it most recently when I was working the food table at my kid’s school fete, and I didn’t have a point of sale. Just do all my calculations with variables so it was easier to spot errors. (Kids spending their own pocket money are ruthless at challenging your math).
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#170It looks neat but I wish it had physics calculations - I want to be able to write something like 10m * 1000kg * 9.8m/s^2 in kWh and see a correct result
Speedcrunch does that, if you don't mind typing it as "10 meter * 1000 kilo gram * 9.8 meter/second^2 in kilo watt hour".
Qalculate! works better for those things: it understands it like you wrote (you have to use "to" instead of "in" for unit conversions though).