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Math Notepad

56 pointsby the-mitrlast Monday at 7:01 AM17 commentsview on HN

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HoldOnAMinuteyesterday at 10:53 PM

We had this in the early 1990's, it was called Mathematica [0]

[0] - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time...

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proeeyesterday at 10:34 PM

Great tool. Reminds me of Instacalc, which has bee around forever.

https://instacalc.com/

shnplnyesterday at 10:30 PM

This is pretty cool, I have a long running hobby project to make something similar in the terminal. https://github.com/ShaneMarusczak/rm-repl

mekentoday at 12:25 AM

I was using Apple Notes for some “math thinking” the other week. A killer feature for me would be an easy way to input various math Unicode characters (I was just copy and pasting them).

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freetime2today at 12:41 AM

Pretty cool. It looks like it also uses local storage - so if you navigate away and come back (or just refresh the page) all of your expressions are still there. A lot of paid productivity apps that I use don't even manage that.

mikeocooltoday at 12:38 AM

If your in the Apple ecosystem, Soulver is a similar app to this that is really great.

I still like it better than the math built into notes for anything beyond basics.

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Jun8yesterday at 11:39 PM

Pretty cool but handling large numbers is pretty limited: chokes on 171! Or 5^5^5.

PerseusLynxyesterday at 10:55 PM

Cool project. I wonder what benefits it has over using good old Desmos Calculator.

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Krastantoday at 12:42 AM

I've been using notepadcalculator.com for years and it's been great

prenx4xyesterday at 11:02 PM

Similar natural language calculator - https://hissab.io

waynecochrantoday at 12:06 AM

handled i^i outa the box ...