Show HN: We built the simplest Online Unit Converter for everyday use

Re:Show HN: We built the simplest Online Unit Converter for ... by botanical76 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:22PM (#42118157)

I'm finding it hard to buy that a precision of 28 decimal digits cannot be computed on today's browsers.

Why could you not have used one of the bigfloat[1] JavaScript libraries that exists? Is there an operation the service requires which is not supported by them?

In any case, thank you for the free service. I'm sure this will be useful to a lot of people. While I would not use a cloud-based calculator, I'm sure a lot of laypeople don't care how it's done, and I appreciate your focus on utmost accuracy.

[1] - https://github.com/davidmartinez10/bigfloat

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Re:Show HN: We built the simplest Online Unit Converter for ... by rpcom on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:31PM (#42118245)

We use C# “decimal” type on backend for high-precision calculations. Frankly, we do not trust third-party libraries when it comes to mission critical calculations. We would better stay safe with well-tested enterprise frameworks like .NET.

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Re:Show HN: We built the simplest Online Unit Converter for ... by kstrauser on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:37PM (#42118290)

OK, now you're just trolling. Got it.

Although I was a little, um, assertive in some of my comments here, I honestly mean them constructively, in the spirit of "here are some things you might consider to make it more useful". I apologize for missing the joke.

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