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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: Xeen on 6 October 2003, 05:20
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Does anyone know any good calculator programs for Windows? I need a good calculator program that can do more than just the basic operationgs that calc.exe does. I need it to convert metric/american units in length, weight, and so on. I need it to be able to support variables (for example so I can say x=5 and then just be able to type in 5x+2). I also need it to be able to do logorithms, differnet type of roots and exponents, preferably base conversions, and support known constants like e and pi. Having it do graphs and solve equations would be nice too.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Most operating systems come with a scientific calculator. YOu have to be joking me to tell me that XP doesn't have what you need for that purpose.
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In Windows XP the standard calculator can be turned into a scientific calculator.
Click View----->Scientific
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Yes, windows does come with a calculator. But its a basic one. The most advanced it can do is some basic trig, logs, and factorials. It cant do anything else. The calculator I've used for the past few years is called Kalkulator, and it's "the mother of all calculators". It can do anything! But I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any other ones because this one does have its limitations and I'm stuck with an old unregistered version too.
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wouldn't it have a windows version? if not, maybe you could make one... might compile in cygwin, might have to modify it a little.
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Maple is about the only decent windows maths program i know of. It's very high standard and used on supercomputers etc (it has ports for mac and unix systems as well.) It's also non free so if you're on a decent OS use octave instead. ;)
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In Windows XP the standard calculator can be turned into a scientific calculator.
Yes but it's crap for serious work. It can't handle variables, unit conversions, base conversions, logic work, all the known constants, graphs, simplifying equations... Maple and Octave can. Oh and the XP power toys give you a better calculator but... well you get what you expect from "XP power *TOY*s." Oh yeah and Maple can factorize complex equations and works to however many decimal points of accuracy you tell it to.
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and calculus (in as many dimensions as you want) and integration and sums over sigma and limits and it can handle sums that contain infinity...
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and taylors series and evaluating constants (you can use it to find pi to however many decimals you like) and trig (including the arcs and inverses) and recursive formulas and exact values (ie it can give answers of the form "sin(x)/root(2)" unless you tell it to simplify) and definite integrals and graphs in 3 dimensions and parametric curves and complex numbers and systems of equations...
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and if you call in the next ten minutes i'll throw in this free piece of soap!
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and polar coordinate work and hyperbolic trig and the binomial and hypergeometric functions and roots of polynomials and matrices...
[ October 06, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]
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SCO Unix provides xcalc, an excellent calculator.
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xcalc for Windows (http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/)
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Personally, I use my handy Ti-83+, and I know for a fact that you can get an emulator and ROMs for any of the Ti calculators (I know this because I was using an emulator when I didn't have my calculator at home).
I'm not too sure if that's legal, though.
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u can emulate ti legally if u have a calc.
btw quirk, how did u get ur rom to work? becuase my roms never work. i'm assuming u r using vti..(i have a ti83+se, and uploaded the roms with tlip)
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Originally posted by Viper:
xcalc for Windows (http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/)
My Windows systems all run Refection X, an X server for Windows, which allows me to run an xcalc remotely, I must remember to make a screenshot of this.
Talking of Calculators, why the hell not just write a shell script? Or a program in C, or somthing.
[ October 07, 2003: Message edited by: X11 ]
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83 Plus? feh!
the 89, baby. GUI and everything.
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Originally posted by Agent Jimmy James Smith:
83 Plus? feh!
the 89, baby. GUI and everything.
hey, we agree on something ;)
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Originally posted by X11:
My Windows systems all run Refection X, an X server for Windows, which allows me to run an xcalc remotely, I must remember to make a screenshot of this.
Talking of Calculators, why the hell not just write a shell script? Or a program in C, or somthing.
[ October 07, 2003: Message edited by: X11 ]
Um. That's a pretty decent level of complexity there. And I doubt he'll be using it only once or twice.
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Stryker... I'm not such a bad guy... once you get to know me!
also... I don't know if it's available for windows, but pcalc is a very good app
[ October 08, 2003: Message edited by: Agent Jimmy James Smith ]
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[ October 08, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]
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^bump. Please bin or delete this thread. My question was answered and then it went off topic a bit.
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i saw the title and was just checking to see if people had mentioned bc and dc, then i saw it's a windows question!
xeen, did you switch to another OS since then?
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Originally posted by Calum:
i saw the title and was just checking to see if people had mentioned bc and dc, then i saw it's a windows question!
xeen, did you switch to another OS since then?
Yes and No. I did dump XP for 2000 because even though all Windows is shit, 2000 is the best of the shit and XP was driving me crazy from all the bloat, slowness, and integration. 2000 is the last Windows I'm ever going to use. I have to use it for now because I do tons of multimedia stuff like audio and video editing and Windows is just a bit better than Linux for that *cough* x11 *cough*. However by the time Longhorn comes out I'll be far away from the clutches of M$.
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Originally posted by xeen:
I do tons of multimedia stuff like audio and video editing and Windows is just a bit better than Linux for that *cough* x11 *cough*.
Yet anouther example about "how less" some people understand about Linux...
Please explain what Xfree86 has to do with this??
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I know you don't have the brains for it.
Chicken... (http://tongue.gif)
PS: HAPPY HALLOWEEN
[ October 31, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]