Surprised no one has mentioned https://instacalc.com yet. Not a native Mac app but genius.
Update: There is a chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instacalc/hfoojdao...
Numi – Calculator app for Mac
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Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#152Hijacking the thread. Does anyone know of a simple paid calculator app for iPad? They all seem to be riddled with ads or obnoxious "cute" features to justify the price
Try this for simplicity: https://apps.apple.com/app/grandma-calculator/id1546631829
It doesn't get more $2 Casio than that.
Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#153It is nice but it could not beat the power of Wolfram Alpha.
The way I use it is from Firefox:
1. Add Search Engine via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wolfram-alpha...
2. Type = followed by expression in your address bar
Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#154Hm. This looks cool, but doesn't solve my most common use case - percentage increases. Example - https://i.imgur.com/LrnUwnB.png
Few weeks ago on HN there was a post about RPN calculator so I decided to get (both as an apps in form of Free42 and physical device) and learn one (for fun and giggles). It’s one of the best gadget I got in a very long time. I absolutely love it and every single time I see a calculation problem I make a simple program for it.
So for your most common use case that would be:
00 { 18-Byte Prgm }
01▸LBL "%INC"
02 XY
03 ÷
04 1
05 -
06 100
07 ×
08 END
Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#155It's a very nice app. I have to ask though: why doesn't it quit when I close the window??
That's pretty standard behavior on MacOS for many apps.
Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#156Hm. This looks cool, but doesn't solve my most common use case - percentage increases. Example - https://i.imgur.com/LrnUwnB.png
Here, I use this for Numi:
buy = 20
sell = 219
gain = sell - buy
performance = gain / buy * 100
amount = 500
capital_invested = amount * buy
capital_returned = amount * sell
capital_gain = amount * gainRe: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
You want your calculator to be a web page?
Why not. I use Chrome to make quick calculations all the time. Just Ctrl+N and 1+1, and the answer is posted. Then Ctrl+W, and/or Alt+Tab to Sublime or whatever. Then I continue with my life :)
On macOS, Cmd+Space and just do calculations in the Spotlight search bar.
Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#158My favorite is still Calca (http://calca.io) - it hasn't been updated for a while, the developer has been working on other things, but it still works for me.
Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#159I would totally use this if it were an extension to Emacs. I keep lots of calculation results in text files, and edit them in emacs, but I don't want to use a totally separate app whenever I want to enter and calculate some math within a text file.
Try https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/literate-calc-mode/
I use it quite often, very handy
Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac
#160I find that calculators remain weirdly unergonomic on most Operating Systems. There are so many times where I want to do some quick math but feel hobbled by the insistence of calculator software writers to ape physical calculator design -- Numi seems like a cool step in the right direction
If you're using OS X, try using Spotlight or Alfred directly (Keypirinha[0] is a reasonable Windows alternative) - just type in `1 + 2` and you get the answer without launching a special app. There are plugins for conversions as well. [0]. https://keypirinha.com/
I keep hearing about Alfred, and frankly I don't know why but I'm missing the reasons why so many people rave about it. I've tried it only once, a while ago, and perhaps I wasn't in the right mood to appreciate it.
Does anyone here uses it, and can ELI5 to me why Alfred is so good?