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Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: kuvasz (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 08:04AM
I hope so.
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: PW (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 08:42AM
There's dozens if not hundreds - do a search at versiontracker.com or macupdate.com. What type of calculations did you have in mind?
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: J-J- (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 10:30AM
have you tried clicking on the green button to get the other variations?
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Badger (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 10:57AM
Define "better"?
What more do you want it to do? Does it calculate wrong?
$5 says you never come back to this post, like 99% of the rest of your posts anyway.
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What more do you want it to do? Does it calculate wrong?
$5 says you never come back to this post, like 99% of the rest of your posts anyway.
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: cymbospondylus (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 02:29PM
J-J- Wrote:
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> have you tried clicking on the green button to get
> the other variations?
Wow. After using OS X for about eight years, I learn something new about the calculator. I had no idea that functionality was there.
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> have you tried clicking on the green button to get
> the other variations?
Wow. After using OS X for about eight years, I learn something new about the calculator. I had no idea that functionality was there.
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: J-J- (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 03:31PM
cymbospondylus Wrote:
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> Wow. After using OS X for about eight years, I
> learn something new about the calculator. I had
> no idea that functionality was there.
Try looking under the VIEW menu as well.
Paper Tape! (print your calculations) RPN!
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> Wow. After using OS X for about eight years, I
> learn something new about the calculator. I had
> no idea that functionality was there.
Try looking under the VIEW menu as well.
Paper Tape! (print your calculations) RPN!
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Ms. PacMan (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 04:38PM
Does RPN too.
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: zesta (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 05:26PM
I still cannot see how they can manage to make such a nice, simple calculator app, and not let you open more than one of them.
It is such a pain.
I need to do fairly simple calculations all the time, but it usually involves a couple intermediate steps.
It would be nice to just be able to whip open an extra calc window or two to do some side calculations.
It is such a pain.
I need to do fairly simple calculations all the time, but it usually involves a couple intermediate steps.
It would be nice to just be able to whip open an extra calc window or two to do some side calculations.
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Badger (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 05:36PM
Just dupe the app, you can have as many as you want.
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: kuvasz (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 08:21PM
Good idea, Badger. And I didn't know about the green button.
I would like to be able to calculate more simply and quickly, by using the keyboard.
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I would like to be able to calculate more simply and quickly, by using the keyboard.
- k
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Winston (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 08:22PM
J-J- Wrote:
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> cymbospondylus Wrote:
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> > Wow. After using OS X for about eight years,
> I
> > learn something new about the calculator. I
> had
> > no idea that functionality was there.
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> Try looking under the VIEW menu as well.
> Paper Tape! (print your calculations) RPN!
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Me too. Had no idea. RPN rocks.
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> cymbospondylus Wrote:
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> > Wow. After using OS X for about eight years,
> I
> > learn something new about the calculator. I
> had
> > no idea that functionality was there.
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>
> Try looking under the VIEW menu as well.
> Paper Tape! (print your calculations) RPN!
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>
Me too. Had no idea. RPN rocks.
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Winston (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 08:31PM
Aw, paper tape doesn't work with RPN.
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Badger (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 08:56PM
kuvasz Wrote:
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> I would like to be able to calculate more simply
> and quickly, by using the keyboard.
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Huh?
The number keys work with Calculator just fine.
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> I would like to be able to calculate more simply
> and quickly, by using the keyboard.
>
Huh?
The number keys work with Calculator just fine.
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: toetag (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 09:00PM
Since were all musing about the attributes of a simple calculator whose many functions were overlooked because nobody seems to explore anymore, here's am interesting tome about a guy that continued working at Apple for free after his project was canceled & he got the boot.
[www.pacifict.com]
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Winston (IP Logged)
Date: October 28, 2009 09:19PM
Great story toetag. I never had much need for the graphing calculator, but it was fun to play with.
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Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: BLR (IP Logged)
Date: October 29, 2009 08:21PM
Learn to use RPN, and you may not need to have multiple calculators open. If you can't do it with RPN, then you may be better off with a spreadsheet. The Apple calculator can be used in RPN mode, as was mentioned above. Excellent emulations of several excellent HP calculators are available from [www.rlmtools.com] , such as the HP-15C (advanced scientific) and HP-11C (financial).
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: Shuh (IP Logged)
Date: October 30, 2009 02:27PM
toetag Wrote:
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> Since were all musing about the attributes of a
> simple calculator whose many functions were
> overlooked because nobody seems to explore
> anymore, here's am interesting tome about a guy
> that continued working at Apple for free after his
> project was canceled & he got the boot.
Wow! I had almost forgotten about Graphing Calculator! And it's nice to finally hear the story behind how it came to be and why it "disappeared!"
Thanks!
Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, “Long live the King!” The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.
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The mob has always behaved in this way — eagerly open to bribes that cannot be honorably accepted and dissolutely callous to degradation and insult that cannot be honorably endured.
— Etienne de la Boetie, (circa 1548)
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude [www.constitution.org]
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> Since were all musing about the attributes of a
> simple calculator whose many functions were
> overlooked because nobody seems to explore
> anymore, here's am interesting tome about a guy
> that continued working at Apple for free after his
> project was canceled & he got the boot.
Wow! I had almost forgotten about Graphing Calculator! And it's nice to finally hear the story behind how it came to be and why it "disappeared!"
Thanks!
Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, “Long live the King!” The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.
•••
The mob has always behaved in this way — eagerly open to bribes that cannot be honorably accepted and dissolutely callous to degradation and insult that cannot be honorably endured.
— Etienne de la Boetie, (circa 1548)
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude [www.constitution.org]
Re: Is there a better calculator for Apple?
Posted by: tenders (IP Logged)
Date: October 31, 2009 10:22AM
Note that when you set the calculator speech setting to "speak result," it says one more decimal of precision more than it displays.
I didn't know about the green button, either! Is that supposed to be a standard response from the green button? (My kids have been taught at school to refer to those things as "skittles.")
I didn't know about the green button, either! Is that supposed to be a standard response from the green button? (My kids have been taught at school to refer to those things as "skittles.")
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