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16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft

Posted by Soulskill on from the holy-smokes dept.

New submitter petval tips another amazing Minecraft project: a functioning scientific/graphing calculator. "On a virtual scale, the functional device is enormous — enough so that anyone in the real world would become a red blot of meat and bone staining the road if they fell from the very top. Honestly, his virtual machine looks more like a giant cargo ship ripped from a sci-fi movie than a working calculator. Yet type your problem out on the keypad, and the answer appears on a large white display mounted on the side of the monstrous brick structure." The creator says it can do "6-digit addition and subtraction, 3-digit multiplication, division and trigonometric/scientific functions ... Graphing y=mx+c functions, quadratic functions, and equation solving of the form mx+c=0." We've previously discussed the creation of a 16-bit ALU in Minecraft.

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  1. During trig/calc class... by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...I created games on my TI-82 graphing calculator, so I guess turnabout is fair play...

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    1. Re:During trig/calc class... by cervesaebraciator · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now the challenge is to go back and recreate Minecraft for your TI 82. Then try creating a graphing calculator within that.

  2. 1222221? by Like2Byte · · Score: 3, Funny

    Calculating something that said '5318008' would have been so much cooled. sigh.

    Seriously, this is simply freakin' awesome! Nice job, MaxSGB.

  3. Autism by firefrei · · Score: 5, Funny

    As per a YouTube Comment:

    Autismï is a hell of a drug.

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  4. Re:16-year-old kids have too much free time by ae1294 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But in minecraft HE IS GOD!

  5. Re:16-year-old kids have too much free time by frup · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next step: Minecraft fleshlight.

  6. Easier than some... by FloydTheDroid · · Score: 5, Funny

    The thing to be noted from this is that Minecraft is an easier IDE to use than Eclipse.

  7. Re:16-year-old kids have too much free time by TheLink · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a truly remarkable rebuttal to your argument that your mind is too small to contain.

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