Comparison of software calculators
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This is a list of notable software calculators.
Immediate execution calculators (button-oriented)
| Name | Price | Open source Open source The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology... |
OS Support | Precision | Scientific mode |
Hex/oct/bin mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac OS calculator | Comes with Mac OS | Mac OS | Double (64 bit) | |||
| Windows Calculator | Comes with Windows | Windows | ≥32 decimal | |||
| KCalc KCalc Kcalc is a calculator application integrated with the KDE-Desktop. In the default view it includes a number pad, buttons for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, brackets, memory keys, percent, reciprocal, factorial, square, square root, and x to the power of y buttons.Additional buttons... |
Linux (KDE) | Arbitrary decimal | ||||
| xcalc Xcalc xcalc is an on-screen calculator program for the X Window System. It can be used in algebraic mode or in reverse polish notation. Early versions also featured a slide rule mode, but this was removed for X11R4, which was released in 1989. The sliderule program for the BSD operating systems is based... |
Linux | Arbitrary decimal | ||||
| GCalctool Gcalctool gcalctool is a calculator that comes with GNOME.-Views:* Basic – Has a basic interface. It looks like a regular calculator.* Advanced – More functions appear... |
Linux (Gnome) | Arbitrary decimal |
Expression or formula calculators
| Name | Price | Open source Open source The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology... |
OS Support | Precision | Hex/oct/bin mode |
History (command line style) |
Defining variables |
Defining functions |
Syntax highlighting |
Monospaced font used |
Error position showed |
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| bc programming language Bc programming language bc, for bench calculator, is "an arbitrary precision calculator language" with syntax similar to the C programming language. bc is typically used as either a mathematical scripting language or as an interactive mathematical shell.... |
Unix | Variable | |||||||||
| FAR Manager FAR Manager FAR Manager is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander... plugin |
Windows | ? |
See also
- Software calculator
- Calculator input methodsCalculator input methodsThere are various ways in which a calculator might interpret key strokes.One can categorize calculators into two main types: 1) single-step or immediate execution calculators and 2) expression or formula calculators....
- Formula calculatorFormula calculatorA formula calculator is a software calculator that can perform a calculation in two steps:1. Enter the calculation by typing it in from the keyboard.2...
- CalculatorCalculatorAn electronic calculator is a small, portable, usually inexpensive electronic device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic. Modern calculators are more portable than most computers, though most PDAs are comparable in size to handheld calculators.The first solid-state electronic...
- Graphing calculatorGraphing calculatorA graphing calculator typically refers to a class of handheld calculators that are capable of plotting graphs, solving simultaneous equations, and performing numerous other tasks with variables...
- Scientific calculatorScientific calculatorA scientific calculator is a type of electronic calculator, usually but not always handheld, designed to calculate problems in science, engineering, and mathematics...