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Good calculator for programmers?

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25 comments, last by Fruny 15 years, 1 month ago
Call me a heretic, but if the windows calculator doesn't have something I need, I usually just write my own.
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I have been using CCalc. Handy for C and C++ programmers as it uses the math library functions and syntax.

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I'm using AllerCalc for almost everything, and windows calculator for hex-decimal-binary conversions.


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Quote:Original post by Nypyren
Call me a heretic, but if the windows calculator doesn't have something I need, I usually just write my own.

Just curious: how many calculators have you written so far? :)
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The Windows 7 calculator has a "programmer" mode which is pretty nifty:

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Take a woodshop class and build yourself an abacus.
I went through school with a number of calculators, the latest of which was an HP48 (yeah, that was back in the mid-90s). Nowadays, I just use Python for a quick one-off (with the numpy and scipy extensions, when necessary).

Python 2.6 and 3.0 support binary literals. [inlove]
>>> 0b110101011011709>>> 0b11010100101010100111010101110001010010100100010100935314319550740>>> bin(99999999999999999999999999)'0b101001010110111110100101101110011001000000011001101001011100011111111111111111111111111'
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." — Brian W. Kernighan

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