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Calculators, readability scores, and date tools

A large batch of new pages landed across Math, Writing, Encoding, Schedule, and Protocol. This article groups them by the question you already have—not by how they are sorted in the catalog.

Toolcore expanded with geometry helpers, personal-finance calculators, readability indices, binary and float encoding utilities, business-day date math, and a handful of URL or semver parsers. You do not need to memorize every slug—start from the job below.

Geometry and distance

Homework, CAD sketches, and “how far is that?” questions share the same pattern: three numbers in, one answer out.

Loans, interest, and net worth

Readability and text metrics

You trimmed a blog post three times and still wonder if it reads easier. Paste the prose into one index page—compare scores across drafts, not against a legal standard.

Floats, CRC, and binary ops

Business days, cron, URLs

Finding the rest

This batch added many more number-theory and text-toy pages (primes, Lucas/Padovan, alternating case, and others). Use navbar search with the word you already have—prime, bell, entropy—or filter Browse tools by Math or Writing. For time-zone habits that pair with date math, see schedule tools for logs and deadlines.

Common use cases

  • Estimate loan payments, business-day spans, or readability before sending a doc to stakeholders.
  • Decode IEEE-754 hex from a debugger or check semver strings from a release tag.
  • Bookmark as a map when the Math or Writing tabs feel too large to scan cold.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Treating readability scores as legal compliance

    Flesch, SMOG, and similar indices are heuristics. They help compare drafts—they do not replace accessibility audits or plain-language review.

  • Using finance calculators as tax advice

    Compound interest and loan pages use standard formulas. Real products add fees, grace periods, and regional rules.

  • Expecting business-day tools to know your holiday calendar

    Business-day counts use Monday–Friday unless the page notes otherwise. Add your own holiday adjustments for bank schedules.

FAQ

Are all of these browser-local?

Yes—the batch described here is Client-side. Check the badge on each page if you chain into Server or AI tools.

Is there one page per formula?

Many calculators have dedicated routes (for example haversine distance or future value). Search by the noun you already know.

Do readability tools replace grammar checkers?

No. They score length and syllable patterns. Use them to compare revisions, not to catch every wording issue.