Why would anybody want to have the Math Notes on an iPhone? It's good for an iPad but not for an iPhone.
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Im working on a calculator that is actually innovative (and sorry VC guys, its not putting AI in a calculator ... though if you want to give me a million bucks I can make an AI calculator that guesses answers : )
It allows for RPN operations on numbers, arrays, and other data objects. It's the modern RPN calculator for anyone and everyone and it's free. Working on an installer for iOS now;
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It allows for RPN operations on numbers, arrays, and other data objects. It's the modern RPN calculator for anyone and everyone and it's free. Working on an installer for iOS now;
GitHub - dnparadice/PyCalc: A Python interpreter with an RPN calculator UI and API
A Python interpreter with an RPN calculator UI and API - GitHub - dnparadice/PyCalc: A Python interpreter with an RPN calculator UI and API
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Why python and not swift? Not knocking your choice as I am also working on a python project but curious as to why you choose python.Im working on a calculator that is actually innovative (and sorry VC guys, its not putting AI in a calculator ... though if you want to give me a million bucks I can make an AI calculator that guesses answers : )
It allows for RPN operations on numbers, arrays, and other data objects. It's the modern RPN calculator for anyone and everyone and it's free. Working on an installer for iOS now;
GitHub - dnparadice/PyCalc: A Python interpreter with an RPN calculator UI and API
A Python interpreter with an RPN calculator UI and API - GitHub - dnparadice/PyCalc: A Python interpreter with an RPN calculator UI and API
I can only think of two things. Being able to see what you worked out on iPad and using the feature on the phone, though you have to use your finger to draw which I am not a fan of. I think it's better they include it but I probably wont get much use from it.
Good question, the answer is that python is dynamically typed and has lots of built in polymorphism for math operations on many data types. This makes it possible to make a calculator that can work like a standard calculator for numeric data type objects but also do calculations on non numeric data types like arrays and tensors all from the same calculator UI. This means that you can load up two tensors in the stack and press "+" to add them which is something most calculators can't do : ) You could do something similar in swift but it would be a lot more work having to handle each data type explicitly.
It's a calculator. Were you hopping Apple might have it clean your bathroom while you were away at work?
My single biggest gripe about the calculator is the lack of a financial calculator. While I understand that apple is a tech company, I believe that there are tons of people in financial services that would find a built in financial calculator extremely beneficial.
Could somebody please explain to me why Apple omitted a calculator from the iPad?
It’s strange to have it for the desktop and also for the phone but not for the iPad. It’s not like this is some incredibly complex application that needs to be written….
As noted by a few people above, it does not appear to support RPN hence, I guess, I will be sticking with my 3rd party calculator. An odd omission given that MacOS supports RPN unless they intend to remove support in Sequoia.
Quite close to someone teaching kids science. That physics math notes feature they demo'ed... Yeah that could be very engaging for the kids. Hopefully one can load a "note" from an external source, and then play with the variables and graphs. Not sure our school district can afford more tech spending on iPads, but maybe a path forward could be found. Well done Apple.
Now realize all the useable IP created with the project not possible with iPadOS.
The project was worth the investment.
Wait until next year when the "vice president of emojis" comes out and talks for 30 minutes about how now you can adjust the skin tone on a smiley face.
Then in another few years, the keynote will announce that "soon" Siri will be able to adjust the brightness of the flashlight. "See we can innovate. The flashlight app now has a dimmer, no longer is it just on and off." Then they will show graphs of how dimming the flashlight saves better power while still empowering the user to select full brightness if it is required.
Then Macrumors reader will complain that the light stays blue-white as it dims and it would look better if it went to warmer orangish light as it dimmed. Others will complain about the lack of a "'candle mode" where the light flickers to simulate a candle.
OK, seriously now. Just in case any of you non-software engineers don't know -- a calculator app is a very common second-year university-level student project. Not quite a homework problem but a "let's have this done by the end of next week kind of classroom assignment.
Reminds me of how "back then" people told me nobody would ever need a mouse to operate a PC...