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This gets me thinking, if you were to design the perfect calculator, what would it look like? (The best calculator that I've seen is running Mathematica on a s
by s17n 9y ago
This gets me thinking, if you were to design the perfect calculator, what would it look like?
(The best calculator that I've seen is running Mathematica on a standard pc, but is there really no way to improve on that interface, assuming that you're making a special purpose device?)
- wtallis 9y agoI've often wished I could use my HP50g as a keypad for entering mathematical expressions on my PC. The calculator on its own is great for short to intermediate length problems, but a Mathematica/Jupyter style notebook interface running on a PC is far better when plotting is involved or when the problem gets too complex or the data set too large. But a standard PC keyboard is pretty inefficient for math input beyond what the number pad can handle, and I'd prefer to build expressions in the calculator's RPN environment and then send them over the USB port.