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High precision scientific calculator with support for physical units
26 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 23 comments · first 2017-03-20 · latest 2023-11-16
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Apparently this replaces https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
comment by benhurmarcel · 2023-11-16 · in Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types -
…there's an open-source web app called that's similar and looks nice too (haven't used it much): https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
comment by insane_dreamer · 2022-09-19 · in 2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer -
Insect: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect It is a bit slow but has decent features, including some physical units support. I set up Tilda (or another Guake equivalent; I tried a bunch of them and can’t remember on which I settled in the…
comment by kergonath · 2022-06-03 · in Ask HN: Do you use a physical calculator in your day job, and why? -
Also in this space is insect: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect and https://www.insect.sh/
comment by cyounkins · 2021-12-23 · in SpeedCrunch -
…). The non-RPN one that I use the most is SpeedCrunch ( http://speedcrunch.org/ ), Insect ( https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/ ) and Frink ( http://frinklang.org/ ). All have unit conversion too.
comment by fbriff · 2020-06-05 · in Julia as a CLI Calculator -
I use insect almost daily ( https://github.com/sharkdp/insect ). It’s a command line calculator, not sure how well it would integrate with comint on emacs. Unit conversions built-in. I don’t know whether it has an RPN mode. The other thing…
comment by drunkpotato · 2020-06-05 · in Julia as a CLI Calculator -
> Granted, I don't really do any complex calculations in my terminal. Same. I use insect — https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
comment by shreyasminocha · 2020-06-05 · in Julia as a CLI Calculator -
…you will have a convenient calculator just a few keystrokes away. [0] https://insect.sh/?q=%3F [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/insect [2] https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/releases
comment by L0stLink · 2020-01-12 · in A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math -
…So instead of using two command line tools (bc to calculate, units to convert) i just use insect. https://github.com/sharkdp/insect There is a web version available as well: https://insect.sh
comment by jaifraic · 2019-09-08 · in Great products do less, but better -
This is great. The same author also wrote insect, which is cool, too. https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
comment by codewritinfool · 2019-01-09 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer -
Thank you. Same request is tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/86
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-25 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
I thought about it for some time and decided not to add Celsius and Fahrenheit: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/68 They are useful, of course, when it comes to simple unit conversions. But they lead to all kinds of problems if you…
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-24 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
Thanks! It has already been requested: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/81
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-24 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
…yes. I believe that both points are somehow already included in the issue that I'm tracking here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/54 Unfortunately, it is not a simple change, no :-/
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-24 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
…open for suggestions on how to improve the logo. I already went through a couple of iterations... https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/blob/master/media/insect.s...
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-24 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
…"dB" is parsed as "deci-byte". While this is not really a useful unit, this is on purpose (see https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/67 ) in order to support "kB", "MB", etc. for "kilobyte", "megabyte", etc.
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-24 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
Thank you very much for the feedback! This is on purpose (see operator precedence rules: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect#reference ). Implicit multiplication (without an explicit multiplication operator) has a higher precedence than…
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-24 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
…Not yet, no - thank you for the suggestion. The command-line version can read from a file, though ( https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/40 )
comment by sharkdp · 2017-06-24 · in Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units -
…and that the result should instead be "4.05Gb" Yes, thank you. This is already tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/37 > It would also be nice if "month" and "year" were added. WolframAlpha uses "30 days 10 hours" for a…
comment by sharkdp · 2017-03-21 · in Insect: a fast, repl-style scientific calculator -
…agreed. This is on my priority list and there is already an open issue which is tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/37
comment by sharkdp · 2017-03-20 · in Insect: a fast, repl-style scientific calculator -
Thank you for the feedback. I'm going to work on this. It is already addressed here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/30
comment by sharkdp · 2017-03-20 · in Insect: a fast, repl-style scientific calculator -
Author here, thank you for the feedback! I will try to add these. Tracked here: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/issues/44
comment by sharkdp · 2017-03-20 · in Insect: a fast, repl-style scientific calculator