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Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by Void_ »

jckt wrote: post #4

Graphing functionality on a phone reminds me of an old TI calculator. I really don't know why recent OSes (be it on PC, smartphone, tablet) always came with such feeble calculators. It's not like TI calculators are difficult to use. Sure if all you want is add/min/mul/div functionality the TI is essentially a traditional calculator, and then behind that you've got all these nifty graphing utilities. It's not like a g…

Bitching and complaining is good for products, makes them better. Don't know much about OSS spirit, but doesn't their work need any improvement??

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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userbinator wrote: post #5

This looks closer to Mathematica/Maple/MATLAB than a basic calculator, although still nowhere near the power of those. Of course 1/0 should be +Infinity, not ?... (Disclaimer: I have a Mathematica console always open on my desktop, and regularly use it for all kinds of calculations.)

Why do you put that down as "disclaimer". This is why people make fun of us.

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by csmuk »

No RPN. Neckbeard status confirmed.

Calculators are still an unsolved problem for me on glass devices to the point I still religiously carry around an HP50G even though its 6x the size of my phone. Also from some bad experiences, it appears that some "app" calculators are also seriously badly implemented. Even basic trig ops can return stupid values at extremes which makes them untrustworthy. Plus none are reasonably programmable.

My use cases are base conversions, simple CAS stuff, basic engineering calculations, unit conversions, financial (TVM etc) and generic math. I also canned a lot of knowledge in RPL programs over the years from fuel calculations to diagnostic tools and dice rollers etc.

Please can someone solve all these problems (without doing half arsed HP calc emulation).

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by shurcooL »

jckt wrote: post #4

Graphing functionality on a phone reminds me of an old TI calculator. I really don't know why recent OSes (be it on PC, smartphone, tablet) always came with such feeble calculators. It's not like TI calculators are difficult to use. Sure if all you want is add/min/mul/div functionality the TI is essentially a traditional calculator, and then behind that you've got all these nifty graphing utilities. It's not like a g…

On that note, iPad doesn't even have the iPhone Calculator app, and it's _impossible_ to get it (without hacking) because it's a built-in app; one you cannot remove nor acquire from the App Store.

It's also missing Compass, Voice Memo and Passbook apps. Edit: Weather app too.

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