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

• numi

  50 5,265 5.2 JavaScript

  Beautiful calculator app for macOS

• dotfiles

  2 9 5.3 HTML

  My dotfiles. (by orlp)

No, I use a Python interpreter that is always open in tmux on the first tab. I have a bunch of predefined functions that I use a lot: https://github.com/orlp/dotfiles/blob/master/pcalc/pcalc

The killer pre-defined functions? copy(x) and paste(). You can guess what they do.

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• libqalculate

  55 1,644 8.7 C++

  Qalculate! library and CLI

  

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/

• settings

  1 3 10.0 Shell

  My settings + prezto for zsh, spf13 for vim, and other dotfiles culled from github (by adamrights)

No, I use mostly this function, based on bc: https://github.com/adamrights/settings/blob/f0337925391b5ea0...

I am currently trying, however, to fix a broken TI-84 Plus I found on the street.

• kalk

  14 1,534 6.6 Rust

  Scientific calculator with math syntax that supports user-defined variables and functions, complex numbers, and estimation of derivatives and integrals

There's also https://kalker.xyz. Not as powerful, but convenient syntax

• eva

  2 787 3.3 Rust

  a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)

I have a TI-84 Plus. However, I mostly use eva [0] and python.

[0] https://github.com/nerdypepper/eva

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