SliP Symbolic Calculator vs Constructive Calculator

SliP is a symbolic calculator you can program. Start with it as a calculator: write a line, press return, and the answer is there. A name made on one line is there on the next, so 'r = 2 and then 2πr does what you would expect. What you write stays as a history you can correct and read again. The same thing is a language. Switch to programming mode and the text rewrites itself into toplevel forms; switch back and it returns to a line at a time. Two views of one thing. WRITTEN THE WAY MATHEMATICS IS WRITTEN π and × and ÷, the set operators ∈ ∋ ∩ ∪, the truth values ⊤ ⊥, and Greek letters as names. None of that is on a keyboard, so all of it is on the keypad: forty-seven operators, twenty-four functions, forty-eight Greek letters and the Latin alphabet. On iPhone the system keyboard never appears, because everything the language is written in is already in front of you. THE SCREEN The keypad sits beside the work where there is width for it and under the work where there is not. Turning a phone over is the same question as picking up an iPad, and it has the same answer. DOCUMENTS A document is an ordinary text file. A first line of //SLIP opens it as a program; without one it opens as a calculator's history. Opening it runs it, so you start where you left off. ALSO - macOS and iOS run the same C++ engine - The same language runs in a browser at https://slip.828.tokyo - No advertising, no analytics, no account, no network. Everything is evaluated on your device The complete language reference is at https://slip.828.tokyo/SPEC.html

Ordinary calculators round. Constructive Calculator doesn't. It computes with constructive real numbers, an arbitrary-precision engine that keeps every result exact and hands you as many correct digits as you ask for. The rounding errors that quietly accumulate in ordinary calculators simply never happen. AS MANY DIGITS AS YOU WANT A pocket calculator stops at about 15 digits and rounds off the rest. Constructive Calculator keeps every result exact, so the digits a normal calculator throws away are still there. Swipe √2, π, or any answer to pull in tens, hundreds, or thousands more, computed on demand. SCIENTIFIC KEYPAD Trigonometry in degrees or radians and their inverses, exponentials and logarithms, powers and roots, factorials, percentages, the constants π and e, and the standard normal distribution, its CDF Φ and quantile Φ⁻¹, computed to the same arbitrary precision as everything else. BIG INTEGERS, IN FULL 52! (the number of ways to shuffle a deck) prints in full, all 68 of its digits, with no scientific-notation hand-waving. BUILT FOR CLARITY A running tape of recent calculations, locale-aware digit grouping, and copy at whatever precision you need. Constructive Calculator is an independent port of Hans Boehm's constructive-reals calculator, rebuilt natively for iPhone and iPad.