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Widget Watch: PEMDAS
Whilst I was attending school my teachers assured me that I would use the math I was learning in my day to day life. They lied. I can't remember the last time someone asked me to get the volume of a pyramid, or what the cosine of 12.3234 was.Since I am but a mere blogger PEMDAS isn't all that useful to me, but if you find yourself wishing for a more competent calculator for OS X you should check it out. It is a scientific calculator that supports formulas, has a nice design, and has a low, low price (free).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
aazp said 2:56PM on 9-20-2006
Finally!, widget or not I've been looking for a calculator app jut like this, this made my day, and will make my life easier.
I would be nice to have some extra features but it great none the less
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Angelo said 2:59PM on 9-20-2006
The included Calculator app in OSX already does all of this.... just go to View, and choose Scientific. The widget is pretty simple though, I'll admit, but I've used the Calculator app many times using the scientific view.
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James said 3:26PM on 9-20-2006
does this thing do percents? I hate how the buily in calc widget lacks a percent key.
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Berndt said 4:35PM on 9-20-2006
Actually, I like the stock calculator a lot. The binary view is priceless!
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John S. said 5:17PM on 9-20-2006
What, no reverse polish?
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Gandhi said 5:52PM on 9-20-2006
As others have said, APple has built-in calculator app (and yes, it does do percentages). Apple goes one further and also includes a graphing application - check in the utilities folder under applications.
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Angel Dominguez said 8:09PM on 9-20-2006
0.97695848984333631997784116197351, that's the cosine of 12.3234. I figured you had written that number because the cosine would have some hidden meaning and had to find out. Conspiranoia from my part, this time...
O:-)
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flushungmemos said 2:24AM on 9-21-2006
I prefer RPNCalc, which is pretty basic visually but a full featured RPN calculator. RPN is "reverse polish notation;" I think polish was the guy who made it, anyway you enter numbers on a stack and then do the operation. So where on a normal calculater you'd press "2" "+" "2" "=", on an RPN calc you press "2" "enter" "2" "+". It makes complex operations much easier.
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