Math is not terribly precise I'm afraid :) > 1111111111111111111111111111111*9 > 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
That doesn’t seem like a floating point inaccuracy. What’s going on there?
NumPad uses Decimal.js to represent numbers
Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
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#122Interesting! Thank you... I was trying to divide an area by a smaller area to get the number of widgets, and it insists on making that into a percentage. Is there a way to make it report a raw number instead of percentages when the two quantities are the same unit?
What's the exact calculation you're doing?
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#123Can you add bit and byte values, as well as units per unit of time please? Base 10 (GB for example) and base 2 (GiB) would be very handy. Full words as an alias as well, so GB -> gigabyte, and GiB -> gibibyte. That way you can do something like: 1GB / 40MB/s in minutes 1GB to Gib 1GB to bits 50 bits to bytes
Yes I can, I'm busy with launch stuff today but I'll get that done soon
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#124This looks pretty cool. I've long been looking for something similar to Soulver ( https://soulver.app/ ) that I can use on Linux. This seems promising. One small criticism: In my opinion, no web-based writing app is useful unless the tab key inserts a tab. The default behavior of most browsers to move focus to the next field is tremendously infuriating in this context. Unfortunately, that's what happens here, at leas…
I came here to deposit this exact same comment with one addition. Great project but seems to be lacking base support. As an engineer I need hex at least.
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#125Re: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
#126Minor bug report: for whatever reason entering a space on my Android keyboard enters the next suggestion on your editor. That's a feature I explicitly disabled, but is active on your website. On top of that if that enters an unrenderable character I see a red dot that's undeletable.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might not be as comprehensive as Soulver, but here's something I've been using in a browser to fiddle with: https://cruncher.io/ .
Gosh, everyone has made one of these haven't they?
I have as well :-) but I lose for not having released. This version is pretty cool though, will probably not gonna use it because same reason I didn’t evolve my version. Don’t need it, and when I need it I don’t need for it to be dynamic.
Re: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
#128Really cool. Minor user pain:
When starting a new line, and the first character is 'e', it gets evaluated to the euler constant. Would be cool if you could find a way to prevent that. :)
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#129The docs say that this is using CodeMirror. The CodeMirror license says that you're allowed to use CodeMirror for your stuff, but that stuff has to in turn include:
1. the copyright notice
2. the text itself that explains that you/others have this permission/obligation
Currently, it looks like NumPad isn't doing either.
From comments here, NumPad is evidently also using decimal.js, which has similar terms.
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#130This is awesome! Some feature requests: it would be great though if you could have multiple sessions/tabs in stead of 1. Also a clear button would be nice.
Can’t you just select all then hit backspace? Asking for a friend...
When using it to make simple calculations while on a phone I think it would be easier than the long click select all delete combo, but perhaps this is not really the aim of the tool.