I certainly can't speak for others, but my typical use case is projected to be in meetings. Imagine sitting in a room with a bunch of engineers and managers, and someone says something worth checking the math on.
If you're not the lucky dude at the conference room's computer and just happens to have IPython Notebook/LightTable/Excel/`w/e`, then this will be handy. Be the guy who keeps up with the conversation and can check assumptions.
The fact it allows variable names with spaces is just the sweetest syntactic sugar.
It runs a smidge slow on the iPhone, but since that's the tool I have on hand, I'll gladly take a lightweight equation solver like this. (And if the slide-to-change numbers feature gets added, I'll happily buy it again. Twice.)
Glad you like the spaces in names! It's not hard to implement without too much ambiguity. :) There are a few tricks I need to pull to make things like: `if x then y else z` be interpreted correctly.
Fun fact: The slowness is bottlenecked by how fast I can update the text editor - the calculations themselves usually only take 10% of the update time. It's a big area that can be improved.
Interesting. I really had just assumed the iPhone was under-powered (having no idea what the device is really doing in the background). If it can go faster, that would certainly be icing. But over all, I think I'll largely be using it to sketch an idea here or there, and it is plenty fast for that. The slowdown is only noticeable for the included big reference documents. (Which are great - being able to twiddle with the features inside the definitions is now my favorite way to learn.)
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I certainly can't speak for others, but my typical use case is projected to be in meetings. Imagine sitting in a room with a bunch of engineers and managers, and someone says something worth checking the math on.
If you're not the lucky dude at the conference room's computer and just happens to have IPython Notebook/LightTable/Excel/`w/e`, then this will be handy. Be the guy who keeps up with the conversation and can check assumptions.
The fact it allows variable names with spaces is just the sweetest syntactic sugar.
It runs a smidge slow on the iPhone, but since that's the tool I have on hand, I'll gladly take a lightweight equation solver like this. (And if the slide-to-change numbers feature gets added, I'll happily buy it again. Twice.)
Glad you like the spaces in names! It's not hard to implement without too much ambiguity. :) There are a few tricks I need to pull to make things like: `if x then y else z` be interpreted correctly.
Fun fact: The slowness is bottlenecked by how fast I can update the text editor - the calculations themselves usually only take 10% of the update time. It's a big area that can be improved.
Interesting. I really had just assumed the iPhone was under-powered (having no idea what the device is really doing in the background). If it can go faster, that would certainly be icing. But over all, I think I'll largely be using it to sketch an idea here or there, and it is plenty fast for that. The slowdown is only noticeable for the included big reference documents. (Which are great - being able to twiddle with the features inside the definitions is now my favorite way to learn.)