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I got fed up with all these complicated calculators and re-implemented the original Mac calculator desk accessory at https://CalculatorDA.com . It does the simple things I need while giving me a nice nostalgia buzz.
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I also do the same although when I need fractions, having to type all the words to import and use the fraction module is a pain
Why not just save those words, and other commonly used words to a startup file? Then, you can just do export PYTHONSTARTUP=/home/savant_penguin/.python/startup.py and those things will be automatically loaded for you. (Edit: add that line to your .bashrc if you want to use it all or most of the time!) If you don't want them always loaded, but rather just for a "calculator mode," you can do something like alias pycalc…
I also noticed that digit keys on keyboard in desktop calculators are useless - why would you type in numbers by clicking? It's very slow.
They're useful to some people for accessibility reasons.
Accessibility-wise, it gives user choice between on-screen keyboard and the app native one
These days many devices can be used in touchscreen only mode (Microsoft surface etc), so keeping the digits makes even more sense there.
https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/article/chalk.html
Typo in the boolean section, one of the 'certainly OR false' results on the chart says 'unlikely'.
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We will somewhat disagree, partly because I can't help using calculators as a scientist, so my opinion is particularly biased. However, I don't like the trend to hide everything that looks technical. On the long run, letting people play with advanced features (that won't break things) is a win-win.
MacOS is really bad abut this sort of thing. It fails on discoverability. For instance, how do you navigate to a hidden folder in the file-selection dialog? There is no option to show hidden, and there is no place to input the exact path. You must know two things to proceed: That there is a secret hotkey to allow exact path specification, and what that hotkey is. It took me years to learn that there was a hotkey -- I…
defaults write -g AppleShowAllFiles yes
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles yes
I would appreciate a better online calculator than Google web search. What do others use, WolframAlpha?
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I second the usefulness of the calculator built into Emacs. Even if I didn't use Emacs for anything else, I'd keep an alias around for starting calc.
I agree, but as good as it is, this is not where people would like to find a good calculator.