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One calculator I’ve come to love over the years is Numi. I keep it open all day every day and it does a pretty good job of bridging the gap between the typical skewmorphic calculator app and scilab or python. It’s a text based calculator that allows you to declare variables and do unit and base conversions and save and load your work. No graphing though unfortunately and i dont think it really has much in the way of plugin support.

Anyway not to say your calculators arent useful op, i just think that something that can be open on the desktop is more useful than something that is hidden in a chrome browser tab.

Haven't tried Numi, but I made a calculator with variables as a side project on a whim: https://calc.li/ - it is online, but there is no backend and you can save the whole page as an offline file if you want, using localStorage for state.

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Typing “2”, “+”, “3” on an iPhone in Safari gets it to display “23+”, which doesn’t appear correct to me ? Looks cute otherwise.

I also love numi on my mac! a similar online alternative is https://numbr.dev/

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