Calca - Humane Symbolic Calculator for OS X and iOS

Re:Calca - Humane Symbolic Calculator for OS X and iOS by avolcano on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:26AM (#6070769)

Would really like to see a comparison between this and Soulver (http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/). Most obvious differences are the lack of a two-column view and support for Markdown, as well as support for function definitions, which I'm pretty sure Soulver lacks.

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Re:Calca - Humane Symbolic Calculator for OS X and iOS by praeclarum on Friday July 19, 2013 @12:12PM (#6071048)

Calca takes ideas from Soulver and super sizes them:

* Soulver allows free text editing within a line of computation; Calca allows free editing in the entire file

* Both update as you type

* Soulver understands arithmetic; Calca knows algebra, calculus, and algorithms

* Soulver requires that all variables be defined; Calca does not

* Soulver does not support user defined functions; to Calca, everything is a function

* Soulver has no programming constructs; Calca is one step away from being a general purpose programming language.

* Soulver does not support matrices; Calca does

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Re:Calca - Humane Symbolic Calculator for OS X and iOS by crux on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:49AM (#6070912)

One feature that Soulver has that I would love to see in Calca is combinatorics - you can do x choose y in Soulver.

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Re:Calca - Humane Symbolic Calculator for OS X and iOS by praeclarum on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:55AM (#6070950)

Developer here, yep that was a bad omission. The worst part is I do that kind of math all the time! You can count on it showing up in updates either as a function or as syntax.

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