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I've never used Soulver, because I don't have a Mac. I really liked the idea of using text editor style input for a calculator. Being a software developer, I created one to see how this would work. This is my interpretation of the text editor style calculator and I'm trying to found out where I can take this design.

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I don't begrudge you bringing this concept to a different platform (kudos for that), but if you arrived at this idea of your on volition, it's a startling coincidence.

Having said that, I'll definitely be sharing a link to your software to all my Linux-user friends. The document-as-a-calculator concept is a fantastic. There's tremendous demand for it as well.

http://www.google.com/search?q=soulver+for+linux

Not terribly startling, no. Anybody that has thought much about advanced text editor features probably has a good chance of thinking to integrate a calculator with a text editor, especially given that spreadsheets are the essentially same idea restricted to a grid. I expect it's been independently re-invented hundreds of times.

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