Discussion

Math Notepad

proee: Great tool. Reminds me of Instacalc, which has bee around forever.https://instacalc.com/

HoldOnAMinute: We had this in the early 1990's, it was called Mathematica [0][0] - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time...

kingkongjaffa: Not just running right there and re-rendering in the browser you didn't.

HoldOnAMinute: We got alone fine for decades without browsers.

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

prenx4x: Similar natural language calculator - https://hissab.io

cybrox: It would be cool if it could be part of a text notebook. E.g. extended Mathjax syntax in Markdown that allows plot() or derive()

Jun8: Pretty cool but handling large numbers is pretty limited: chokes on 171! Or 5^5^5.

waynecochran: handled i^i outa the box ...

meken: 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).

WillAdams: There are various stylus-based tools which do that sort of thing:https://www.inftyproject.org/en/software.html(I used to use the math input palette w/ a Wacom ArtZ on my NeXT Cube for transcribing math documents in college)

hoistbypetard: It was eye-wateringly expensive and required a high-end system, though. It was good, and I liked it too, but it's not the same as being usable from pretty much anywhere for $0.

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

mikeocool: 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.

avel: $39?! I'll stick with qalc!