Leopard Love: Apple boosts Calculator

@mmoore

For the iPhone try http://scicalc.belfry.com/

Mathpad is still the best calculator eva! ( http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwidholm/MathPad/ ). Mark, please port Mathpad to the iPhone.

Wow, I haven't seen anything this good since my old HP-35, I grew up on RPN but none of the 3rd party calcs seemed to come close. I never knew this was in Calculator.app, thanks much for pointing it out. The only way this could be better is if it had a Dietzgen Slide Rule mode.. ha.

someone please port this to the iphone, quick.

Calling this a step up is sort of weird. This simply makes it usable. Using RPN without being able to see the stack is insane.

Why not just use Grapher, which comes with the OS? It's sadly overlooked, I think. Not only is it a great graphing program, but if you erase the "y=" part, it does a fine job as a calculator, with the full array of functions. The only thing better than RPN, in my opinion, is being able to write the whole equation out with parentheses and all (and grapher formats fractions and exponents very nicely), which you can of course edit as needed.

Mein godt in himmel! So here have I been looking through tons of calculation application, with no one fitting my needs, and all I had to do was look in the menus of the standard one. (I feel stupid right now, but it will pass once I explain this to others...)

What is RPN?

I don't know if this was in Tiger but the Binary/Hex calculator are very very handy for a Computer Science student like myself - the envy of those fools using Windows Calc :)

oh snap!

i didnt know it had RPN? I HATE algebraic calculators.

Nice! Now if only they would extend that same functionality to the iPhone! RPN calculators are so nice. Sadly my trusty HP 48 was stolen two years ago.