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Math.js is an extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js. It features a flexible expression parser and offers an integrated solution to work with numbers, big numbers, complex numbers, units, and matrices.
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<html>
<head>
<title>math.js | web workers</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
In this example, a math.js parser is running in a separate
<a href="http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics/">web worker</a>,
preventing the user interface from freezing during heavy calculations.
</p>
<p id="results"></p>
<script>
/**
* MathWorker evaluates expressions asynchronously in a web worker.
*
* Example usage:
*
* var worker = new MathWorker();
* var expr = '12 / (2.3 + 0.7)';
* worker.eval(expr, function (err, result) {
* console.log(err, result)
* });
*/
function MathWorker () {
this.worker = new Worker('worker.js');
this.callbacks = {};
this.seq = 0;
// create a listener to receive responses from the web worker
var me = this;
this.worker.addEventListener('message', function(event) {
var response = JSON.parse(event.data);
// find the callback corresponding to this response
var callback = me.callbacks[response.id];
delete me.callbacks[response.id];
// call the requests callback with the result
callback(response.err, response.result);
}, false);
}
/**
* Evaluate an expression
* @param {String} expr
* @param {Function} callback Called as callback(err, result)
*/
MathWorker.prototype.eval = function eval (expr, callback) {
// build a request,
// add an id so we can link returned responses to the right callback
var id = this.seq++;
var request = {
id: id,
expr: expr
};
// queue the callback, it will be called when the worker returns the result
this.callbacks[id] = callback;
// send the request to the worker
this.worker.postMessage(JSON.stringify(request));
};
// create a MathWorker
var worker = new MathWorker();
// evaluate an expression via the worker
worker.eval('12 / (2.3 + 0.7)', function (err, result) {
document.getElementById('results').innerHTML += 'result: ' + result + '<br>';
});
</script>
</body>
</html>