Ask HN: What calculator are you using in 2025?
Tell me what calculator are you using? Is it an app a hardware or program on your pc? Is it for programming, science or just a litte bit adding and subtracting?
Tell me what calculator are you using? Is it an app a hardware or program on your pc? Is it for programming, science or just a litte bit adding and subtracting?
Anything too complex for the dead simple calculator on my phone ends up in a spreadsheet. I’m not generally graphing anything or doing complex calculus, tho. Mostly finances. For algebra, geometry, and any calculus that’s about manipulating symbols rather than getting to a number, I’ll use scrap paper. But then I learned math back before the calculators available to the average Joe could do any of that for you.
For simple adding of a list of numbers I either use a text file and awk, or Spotlight on the Mac.
Spigot: an extremly precise calculator. it calulates every formular to the needed precision. Other programs often have problems with longer formulars, especially when it goes to an precision beyond 3 numbers after the comma.
psst ... "formula"
bc [1] for a little bit of everything.
[1] - https://linux.die.net/man/1/bc
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