I don't know about Apple's calculator, but I just found out that
Maxima has scientific functions and it's text based. You can type
something like sqrt(81); or solve(9*x=81);. I'm telling you, I wish I
would have known about this program when I was taking those math
classes. If you have Darwin ports installed, you can type "port
install maxima" from the terminal.
On Jun 7, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
What about scientific functions. Is there a list of key strokes for
squaring something or getting the square root of something. This
would be nice so I don't have to ask my math teacher to borrow the
talking scientific calculator all of the time.
On 7-Jun-08, at 8:22 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
did you check the speech item?
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From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Apple's Calculator simply doesn't cut it
I've been thinking it doesn't work, but that's because vo doesn't
seem
to speak in that box for me. When I just did 2+2 to test it it
worked
fine, but my accuracy isn't always very good, and when I try to make
corrections things go wrong.
Yeh, when I make corrections everything disappears from the box or
maybe just the last number I typed will be there. It's a bit odd. I
don't really mind hitting the buttons, but if there's a better
solution to be had it might be nifty to play.
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On 6-Jun-08, at 1:25 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Orin, you can indeed just type the numbers. I think you have to be
focussed on the display area, but that's where you start when you
open up the calculator.
Darcy
On 6-Jun-08, at 4:10 PM, Orin wrote:
Hey all,
Does anyone know where I can get a Calculator to type on, rather
than click on each of the buttons? I was doing a rather simple
operation that I really could've, should've done in my head this
morning. I didn't feel like it, and besides I wanted to give this
calculator a test run, since I haven't used it before, and it
disappointed me that there was no edit box to type the numbers in.
Does anyone know a freeware app that can do this, or perhaps
Apple's Calculator can do it, I'm just not sure how to get the edit
box up?
Thanks.
