Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?

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40 Hadiths

On the computer, I use Emacs' Calc [0]. Having such a powerful calculator right there and built into my editor is compelling. On the go, I use Droid48 [1]. As much as I love my real HP-48G, I find that it's similar to the saying about cameras: "the best camera^H^H^H^H^H^Hcalculator is the one that's with you." [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/index.html [1] <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48</a>.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1162 social mentions

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Numi App

#Calculator #Advanced Calculator #Text Calculator 29 social mentions

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Soulver 3 for Mac

Numi reminds me of Soulver at first glance: https://soulver.app/.

#Calculator #Advanced Calculator #Productivity 30 social mentions

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Qalculate!

On the terminal, I use `qalc`[1]. It's a nice natural language calculator that does arithmetic, solves quadratic equations/linear systems, does unit conversions and even a bit of calculus. Combine it with a cli graphing tool and you can do pretty cool things. Anything more complicated I'm probably ok with latency, so I open up wolframalpha and enter it there, again, in natural language. [1] https://qalculate.github.io/.

#Calculator #Advanced Calculator #Engineering Calculator 31 social mentions

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PCalc

Not sure if you need graphing support but if not, for iOS/Mac I often hear people recommending PCalc: https://pcalc.com.

#Calculator #Advanced Calculator #Engineering Calculator 2 social mentions

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Numbr

#Productivity #Calculator #Online Calculators 10 social mentions