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Math Notepad (mathnotepad.com)
60 points by the-mitr 16 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 18 comments


We had this in the early 1990's, it was called Mathematica [0]

[0] - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time...


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.


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


We got alone fine for decades without browsers.


Mathematicians used to send each other letters in the mail until very recently. Perhaps I do not understand what you mean?


Great tool. Reminds me of Instacalc, which has bee around forever.

https://instacalc.com/


This is pretty cool, I have a long running hobby project to make something similar in the terminal. https://github.com/ShaneMarusczak/rm-repl


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).


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)


Pretty cool. It looks like it also uses local storage - so if you navigate away and come back (or just refresh the page) all of your expressions are still there. A lot of paid productivity apps that I use don't even manage that.


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


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


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()


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.


$39?! I'll stick with qalc!


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


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


handled i^i outa the box ...




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