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What sort of calculator do you use?
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday December 11 2019, @10:25PM (2 children)
The "Standard" calculator with windows isn't a simple 4 function caluclator. It also does things like square, square root, and has things like Memory Save, Memory Recall, etc.
I can do basic math in my head. Yet, at a certain point, it's just much simpler to offload that work to a simple calculator. Also, it's kinda cool to use python to complicated equations or something that's just complicated enough to warrant a tiny script.
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(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Thursday December 12 2019, @01:28PM (1 child)
The Windows 2000 calculator in scientific mode does logs/exponents, trig, and also Hexadecimal. I use that regularly. The calculator in newer Windows makes you switch to a different mode to use hex, IIRC. Sometimes I open a notepad window next to it to record values at each step. It would have been handy for it show a log of previous values like the calculator program that my MSX2 has in ROM (or the calculator with the paper tape printer that my grandmother used to use...)
Voted gray matter though since that one doesn't even require typing.
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Tuesday December 17 2019, @08:11PM
I'm sitting in front of a Windows 7 machine, so I fired up Windows Calculator. The four modes are Standard, Scientific, Programmer, and Statistics. Only Programmer gives you access to hexadecimal (but also lets you choose decimal, octal, or binary, should you want one of those.)
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