Hey guys, this is Kalid from instacalc. Thanks for the link -- please send any feedback/bug reports to kalid@instacalc.com and have fun playing around with it.
I'm actually in YC this summer on another project with some friends, we'll let you know when it's launched :)
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I was surprised how quickly the spammers found my little old site. Nofollow is a great suggestion. I may need to add captchas as well.
1) You need more units! Especially physical units, erg, joule, etc.
2) The interface is too slow on my mac camino browser.
3) Play a little with Frink. In terms of calculations, frink is awesome. However, the plotting and the shared aspect of instacalc is very cool... perhaps you can merge the two?
Very nice. But it doesn't have one of my favourite google calculator features: built-in physical constants -- things like "speed of light", "electron mass", "permittivity of free space", "planck's constant" and so forth.
I realize I'm in a bit of a niche here, but that's a very useful feature for me.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll consider adding them in. Ideally I'd like to make a plugin system where people can enter and share their crazy formulae & constants.
Great site. Very self explanatory. I like that it removes all the hassles of creating, saving, and distributing spread sheets. Definately bookmarking this one.
i tried: R7: 384 kbit/sec in GB/month
then using the result from R7: R7/1mb
the calculation will not use the quantity type of R7 which is GB, but only the number. trying to use: R7 in GB will again not use the right quantity for my result..
Yeah, I decided to make it case insensitive to avoid confusion. It seems most non-techies aren't aware of the GB vs gb distinction (and not to mention the uber-geeks who insist on gibi and kibi and all that :) )
If you want gigabits, you can explicitly write "gbit":
1 pint in cubic cm, sure. Cubic meters, no problem. Cubic knots, even cubic rods, anything you want.
But cubic acres? Now that's just getting crazy. Acres measure area, so not exactly sure what a "cubic acre" would be. I suppose it could be a cube with 1 acre each side, but man, that's pushing it :).
I'm actually in YC this summer on another project with some friends, we'll let you know when it's launched :)