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Show HN: NaSC – Do maths like a normal person
- BeefySwain 11y agoI have been looking for something like this for a while, I find software calculators to be woefully inadequate for anything beyond the most basic math. Will definitely check this out!
- ArekDymalski 11y agoSimply beautiful, beautifully simple idea. Takes the best of two worlds: paper and calculator. Somehow reminds me http://strlen.com/treesheets/ http://strlen.com/treesheets/ I was also impressed by the creative approach to the centuries-old task.
- CMCDragonkai 11y agoWould be great if that had a mobile version and synced.
- micampe 11y agoI usually don’t like to link to competing projects, but this seems to be only for Linux so I think I can link a similar one (as far as I can understand from the screenshots) for OS X and iOS: http://acqualia.com/soulver/ http://acqualia.com/soulver/
- jamesrom 11y agoEver since I first saw Soulver I have been eagerly awaiting a Windows alternative. Maybe with NaSC we're just a little closer.
- hantusk 11y agoThere is OpalCalc for Windows: http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/ http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
- doomrobo 11y agoThis was the first tool I thought of when I saw this. They actually look similar, too.
- perishabledave 11y agoLooks like a close copy of Soulver to me. I think in this case it's worth mentioning.
- kwhitefoot 11y agolooks interesting, I wonder if it can be ported to Windows, where I have to spend my working life :-(. For something even more sophisticated and Mathcad-like take a look at SMath Studio: http://en.smath.info/ http://en.smath.info/, unfortunately only free as in beer.
- CMCDragonkai 11y agoI use something like speedcrunch. http://speedcrunch.blogspot.com.au/ http://speedcrunch.blogspot.com.au/ Runs cross platform. Also wanted more algebraic like wolfram alpha capability though.
- petepete 11y agoAlso, Numi http://numi.io/ http://numi.io/
- dangoor 11y agoThere's also Calca which runs on Windows, Mac and iOS: http://calca.io/ http://calca.io/
- andrepd 11y agoNeat. I'm a regular Sage user, and this seems to be an interesting tool for when I don't require the full power of that tool and just need to make some quick calculations.
- tptacek 11y agoApropos nothing: I'd really like an alternative to Sage for light linear algebra work. In particular, I'm not in love with the way Sage interacts with Python.
- leni536 11y agoGNU Octave [1] which is pretty much a Matlab clone. I find the Matlab syntax easy enough for linear algebra. [1] https://gnu.org/software/octave/ https://gnu.org/software/octave/
- swagv 11y agoSo it does algebras and geometrys too?
- ageofwant 11y agoBrett Victor's reactive documents http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/ http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/, may not be seminal but good nevertheless. It should be noted that this kind of thing has been available in Mathematica, ipython etc. for literally decades. Not that the tool is not great, it is.
- kwhitefoot 11y agoMathematica is not free and iPython is not as straightforward to use.
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- bklebe 11y agoSeems like either a direct copy of or bizarrely coincidental convention with the Mac/iPhone Soulver
- reinhardt1053 11y agoIt's coded in Vala. Source code: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nasc-team/nasc/trunk/files/74 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nasc-team/nasc/trunk/files/74
- mobiuscog 11y agoI hadn't seen Vala before - now I'm really interested. Thanks for mentioning this.
- unhammer 11y agolooks neat :-) but is there any chance of a ppa for vivid?
- mrottenkolber 11y agoI don't have ubuntu bzr, is there a way for me to get the source code?
- e12e 11y agoYou can browse it on-line: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nasc-team/nasc/trunk/files http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nasc-team/nasc/trunk/files Other than that, looks like you'll need bzr to pull/clone.
- skwaugh 11y agoHow exactly do non-normal folk do math? am i missing something?