Show HN: Calcutext – Do calculations with your written text

by jaredreich • 4 years ago

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I was finally able to finish this open-source project that I built to about 90% completion nearly 2 years ago when my daughter was born, during my 1-month parental leave, and then sadly left untouched until a few weeks ago. Hope you enjoy trying out the app and looking at the source code! :)

GitHub link here: https://github.com/jaredreich/calcutext

eimrine• 4 years ago

I have not any experience with mathjs and did not have any expectations. But I felt in love after writing this:

r = u / i

u = 220V

i = 1A

r = u / i

because the editor correctly guessed that I am talking about ohms. BTW I really needed that "max-width" option because on my 1080x2560 vertical monitor I use to see only "o" instead of "ohm" without the option.

jaredreich• 4 years ago

Hehe, that's awesome, so glad to hear that! Mathjs is really great with units out of the box, and they also have a custom unit feature that I may use in the future to beef up the unit library.

And nice find on that setting, I have a handful of other settings I want to implement too: https://github.com/jaredreich/calcutext/issues/2

Thank you for trying it out, it means a lot to me.

beardyw• 4 years ago

Can't read the name without it being something about Calcutta (now Kolkata).

shashkingregory• 4 years ago

looks familiar to numi.app but open source:) cool congrats with the release!

Show HN: Calcutext – Do calculations with your written text

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