InstaCalc VS Notepad Calculator

Shout out to https://instacalc.com/ . It's like a simple spreadsheet or calculator but with awesome support for dimensional analysis -- you can attach any units you want to a quantity and it will track it throughout the calculations. For example, here's a quick scratchpatch I used for calculating memory bandwidth / CPU transfer rates: https://instacalc.com/56842. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Neat! I used to use https://instacalc.com/ for simple calculations, you can share your calculations, but it doesn't have the notepad feature like this one. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

In the wide niche on the complexity scale between your basic Windows* calculator and MATLAB sits instacalc.com. Source: over 2 years ago

For quick ad-hoc calculations I like https://instacalc.com/ because:. Source: almost 3 years ago

Surprised no one has mentioned https://instacalc.com yet. Not a native Mac app but genius. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

This looks fantastic. I will definitely give it a spin. I've been tracking what I call "computational scratchpad" apps for a while now but haven't found one that fits my environment/workflow yet. Maybe Heynote will. Here are some others that I've looked at: * https://soulver.app Granddad of them all, Mac-only, proprietary, expensive * https://numi.app Mac-only, proprietary, semi-expensive. Has a Github and claims... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I made a list of calculators like this which were shared here on HN over time https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6546011091d53380354484a3bb660ec2 From these https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/ and https://notepadcalculator.com/ are the most programmer friendly (supporting <<, ^, binary, hex etc). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

For quick calcs I like http://notepadcalculator.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago