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Silent Matt
Personal blog · silentmatt.com/blogprogrammingmath
Silent Matt is a personal blog at silentmatt.com about programming and math. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Silent Matt's JavaScript expression evaluator, which Calculoid uses for spreadsheet formulas. One commenter says it supports a limited set of functions that map more to JavaScript's Math object than to Excel.
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Thoughts, stories and ideas.
What Hacker News says?
The Calculoid people have publicly disclosed ( https://github.com/calculoidapp/calculoidapp.github.io/wiki/... ) they they're using this library for evaluating formulas: https://silentmatt.com/javascript-expression-evaluator/ Through that library, they support a limited number of functions, which map more closely to the built-in Math object of JavaScript than to Excel. We (Calcapp) have a custom-written compiler, wh…
Comment linking /javascript-expression-evaluator/
on “Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages”Submitted How BigIntegers work in JavaScript as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Expression Evaluator as a story · 2 points
HN discussion