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prenx4x··on Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15
Its not trying to achieve a feature parity with wolfram or mimic it. Its just an alternative to do calculations and may meet somewhere in the middle.
prenx4x··on Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15
Hissab - https://hissab.io is a Free and opensource alternative to Wolfram
prenx4x··on I Am Open Sourcing Hissab Calculator App, Skills, CLI and NPM
Any Feedbacks, suggestions or nitpicks are welcomed!
prenx4x··on Math Notepad
Similar natural language calculator - https://hissab.io
prenx4x··on Show HN: Type and Calculate Anything, Instantly. Numi like Calculator.
ya google is great with understanding natural language and providing either direct result or pointing to appropriate website. My goal is to improve Hissab's natural language capabilities as much as I can. Also, regarding the example you mentioned about calculating interest, I will be adding those features in the form of a function like simple interest(principle=1M, rate=8%, duration=10 years) etc. Its not natural language, but once you learn, and you do this a lot, hissab will come handy.
prenx4x··on Show HN: Type and Calculate Anything, Instantly. Numi like Calculator.
I do believe the next stage of evolution for Hissab would be to integrate fully natural language via some form of AI, provided it gives accurate results. I have known about ChatGPT plugins and wolfram's integration. In fact they provide APIs that I can integrate in hissab. But I need to do the cost analysis for that.

Thanks for checking Hissab and your feedback!

prenx4x··on Show HN: Type and Calculate Anything, Instantly. Numi like Calculator.
Thanks!
prenx4x··on Show HN: Type and Calculate Anything, Instantly. Numi like Calculator.
Thanks a lot for sharing this. I will look at Frink and Rink and try to implement missing features in Hissab. I will also add lot more constants in the future. Currently it only supports pi and e.
prenx4x··on Show HN: Type and Calculate Anything, Instantly. Numi like Calculator.
It was great to work with Ionic. I did consider the alternatives like React Native and Flutter. But Ionic is truly one framework for Single codebase that works on web, PWA and native OSs. Also the UI elements are of high quality and easy to work with.
prenx4x··on Show HN: Type and Calculate Anything, Instantly. Numi like Calculator.
Thanks. Yes, compound units like miles/hour or kg.m/s^2 etc are in the roadmap.
prenx4x··on Show HN: Type and Calculate Anything, Instantly. Numi like Calculator.
There is, for sure, a small learning curve, but for professionals that do lots of calculations day to day, it can save time for them, specially with variables and reusing a previous result. This can then act like a simple spreadsheet, where you can play with numbers and see the results updating on the entire page. Another advantage of Hissab over traditional calculators or even google search is the ability to see all your expressions at the same time as compared to alternatives where you can only do one line of calculations at a time and results disappear when performing another calculations.

Hissab is launched recently. Soon, I will be introducing the ability to calculate complex number, solve equations, calculus, probabilities, compound units etc on the Math side. also lot more calculations for computer science like IP address calculations, various hash algorithms calculators and many other features.

This will eventually become the all in one calculator to calculate anything. Again, small learning curve, but beyond that it can save a lot of time for professionals and students.

Generative AI is quite bad a doing math and I would not believe the results it "guesses".

Mathematica and wolfram are in a different pricing tier, so hissab is like a poor man's mathematica.

prenx4x··on I made Hissab, a text based calculator – available on all platforms
Hissab is still in its infant stage and I have huge plans for it. Some potential future updates will include currency and financial data calculations, advanced and scientific math calculation, complex units support etc.
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A simple, intuitive & powerful calculator, unit convertor and productivity app available on all platforms.