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Cruncher: An implementation of Bret Victor's Scrubbing Calculator

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Re: Cruncher: An implementation of Bret Victor's Scrubbing Calculator

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Victor has some interesting ideas about interfaces, but his campaign to replace simple, powerful, and quick algebraic manipulation with slow, laborious, trial-and-error pushing of numbers around with a mouse is, I think, seriously misguided. Algebra, in addition to giving you an exact solution more quickly, can help you discover general formulas for your problem, and reveal relationships between things, that you can…

Yes I don't understand. Isn't it better to understand how to express your problem and type it into wolfram alpha than do this?

Re: Cruncher: An implementation of Bret Victor's Scrubbing Calculator

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Hey all! I've been working on this on-and-off for a few months, but it is sort of in a broken state right now on GitHub. I'm playing with some modifications to the charts and dependency graph, and the localStorage autosave/load is a bit glitchy. Just saw Dan posted it now, and figured I should chime in (and push my last few commits). The version here works the OK-est, but it still needs work: http://www.omarrizwan.co…

Very interesting! Could be a useful tool to teach algebra. I've posted some bug reports on github. Please keep up the good work!
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