[Ann] An online arithmetic calculator for Gemini

[Luke Emmet]

On 06-Jun-2020 22:56, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Luke Emmet once stated:
>> You should be able to throw any simple arithmetic calculation at it,
>> including brackets, scientific notation etc. It will try to help you out
>> if you feed it nonsense or invalid input. It doesn't have any inbuilt
>> functions like sine, or mathematical constants like e, i, pi though. So
>> it's kinda basic, but fun.
>    So at first, I tried:
>
> 	3*2+1
>
> It failed, saying I needed to space the operands.  Okay.  I then tried:
>
> 	3 * 2 + 1
>
> And it still failed.  I wonder if you aren't decoding the query properly.

That should work. It works for me:

gemini://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/cgi-bin/calc.cgi?3%20*%202%20+%201

Is your client url escaping the request?

There could be a mismatch between client and server (molly brown) 
regarding query params.

Best wishes

  - Luke