sharkdp/insect
High precision scientific calculator with support for physical units observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 6
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3476
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 569
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3168 stars · 128 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Insect is a high-precision scientific calculator with full support for physical units, available both as a terminal application and a browser-based web app. It evaluates mathematical expressions with 30 significant digits, handles unit parsing and implicit/explicit conversions, and supports variable assignments. The README recommends its successor, Numbat, a Rust rewrite.
Use cases
- convert units in calculations like 60 mph -> m/s
- compute physics problems with quantities like 40 kg * 9.8 m/s^2
- high precision arithmetic with 30 significant digits
- quick scientific calculations in the terminal
- calculate with mixed units like 2 min + 30 s
- share calculations via a browser URL
When to avoid
- you are starting a new setup - the author recommends the successor project Numbat instead
- you need a full programmable scientific computing language rather than an interactive calculator
- you need graphing or symbolic algebra capabilities
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
parser cli developer-tools mathematics web-development education cli browser cross-platform scientific-calculator physical-units unit-conversion purescript terminal-app web-app high-precision-arithmetic superseded-by-numbat physics command-line web-server
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3e471973d1f4
- homepage: https://numbat.dev/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5cc02a7b04d5
- site_page: https://numbat.dev/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 700434a555ef
- site_page: https://numbat.dev/docs/examples/example-numbat_syntax · fetched 2026-08-29 · 18653d662426
- site_page: https://numbat.dev/docs/web/usage · fetched 2026-08-29 · bad4ad987dc8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sharkdp/insect | main | 10 |
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