{"id":1901,"date":"2007-12-04T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2007-12-04T23:37:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T04:37:48","slug":"instacalc-online-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1901","title":{"rendered":"Instacalc Online Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/instacalc.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot of Instacalc\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instacalc.com\/\">Instacalc Online Calculator<\/a> is a neat online sharable application by Kalid Azad of BetterExplained.com (which has some nice explanations of things like Ruby on Rails). It gives you electric math paper, not cells the way a spreadsheet does. It evaluates in real time and handles all sorts of everyday things you need to calculate like currency conversion. You can share a calculation like the budget for a workshop by sending a link so others can create variant versions. While I&#8217;m not sure how I would use it, I like the simplicity of it. What would a text analysis enabled version look like? Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yvdthq\">tinyURL<\/a> sample link to a Instacalc sheet with what text handling I could find. Here is the embedded object. Go ahead and edit in it live!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/instacalc.com\/embed\/?d=&amp;c=dGV4dCA9ICJIZWxsbyBXb3JsZCJ8YW5hbHlzaXMgPSAiSGVsbG8gV29ybGQifHRleHQgPT0gYW5hbHlzaXN8fHx8&amp;s=sssssss&amp;v=0.9\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instacalc Online Calculator is a neat online sharable application by Kalid Azad of BetterExplained.com (which has some nice explanations of things like Ruby on Rails). It gives you electric math paper, not cells the way a spreadsheet does. It evaluates in real time and handles all sorts of everyday things you need to calculate like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instacalc Online Calculator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}