FYI the word is "converter" not "convertor" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/converter
Looks like both spellings are used: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/converter
Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators
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#82Just an FYI, your site is blocked by Sophos Web Protection:
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#83Thanks for sharing! I found an amusing math bug in the basic calculator:
0 + 0.00000001 gives 1e-8 (I see you’re displaying in scientific notation, hmm— I wonder how you’re storing it internally…)
Then multiplying that by 5 gives… -39.
Somehow 1e-8 * 5 is being parsed as 1 + (-8 * 5)?
Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators
#84I tried 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000001 * 2 and it gave me 0. Precision on a calculator is very important, such operations should be exact. Please refrain from using floating point operations.
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#86If you're taking suggestions, I have a frequent need to do basic arithmetic on fractions and not many "app" calculators do that well or at all.
Buy a handheld calculator. Many scientifics since the mid 80s handle compound fractions via the "a b/c" key.
I have a couple, they work fine, but there don't seem to be that many options for apps/web.
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#87If you're taking suggestions, I have a frequent need to do basic arithmetic on fractions and not many "app" calculators do that well or at all.
This is very different, but check out my https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/notebook.love
I don't have an immediate use for it, but I quite like it!
Re: Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators
#88I tried 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000001 * 2 and it gave me 0. Precision on a calculator is very important, such operations should be exact. Please refrain from using floating point operations.
It may be pedantic from me but what are you calculating that needs that level of precision?
Or more specifically, why not just use a different unit base, fixed point arithmetic doesn't come for free.
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#89Very nicely done. If I were to tweak something....
Some have different names once you click on them.
- "Speed" is "Speed and Pace."
- "Data Size" is "Data Storage"
- "Fuel Economy" is "Fuel Consumption"
On the Data Size / Data Storage calculator, I would add kilobits, megabits, gigabits, and terabits. In addition to data storage, that might make it useful as a bandwidth calculator as well.
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#90Ok. I need a fully accessible sci calculator that is keyboard accessible for all functions. Check out desmos site. Their calc isn’t bad but clear button isn’t keyboard accessible.