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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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...
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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.
September 20 2006 at 6:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs 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.
September 20 2006 at 5:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat, no reverse polish?
September 20 2006 at 5:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually, I like the stock calculator a lot. The binary view is priceless!
September 20 2006 at 4:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply0.97695848984333631997784116197351, 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...
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does this thing do percents? I hate how the buily in calc widget lacks a percent key.
September 20 2006 at 3:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe 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.
September 20 2006 at 2:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFinally!, 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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