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Title: Good computer calculator program
Post by: KeyMan on May 14, 2008, 05:42:57 pm

Hi all, was wondering if anyone knows of a good calculator program for the computer that I can use? Sometimes I forget to bring my calculator home and I'm left with the crappy Windows calculator.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Good computer calculator program
Post by: Mao on May 14, 2008, 06:00:06 pm

you have several choices,

1. buy commercial product from TI, using basically the same syntax as your calculator, TI-interactive and Derive are both good programs

2. buy commercial products, such as Mathematica

3. download open-source mathematical softwares that are similar to mathematica, such as Sage [http://www.sagemath.org/]
the download is pretty big though, and you need a virtual-machine [if you are on windows]

4. download a calculator emulator,
http://www.ticalc.org/programming/emulators/

Title: Re: Good computer calculator program
Post by: mark_alec on May 14, 2008, 07:13:01 pm

5. Use google as a calculator

Title: Re: Good computer calculator program
Post by: gfb on May 14, 2008, 07:14:33 pm

Maple

I use it in my course, it's a great program :).

http://www.maplesoft.com/

Title: Re: Good computer calculator program
Post by: bilgia on May 14, 2008, 08:33:37 pm

ah i looked at maple..its mad im gona download it right now

Title: Re: Good computer calculator program
Post by: AppleXY on May 15, 2008, 08:42:38 am

Lol. Do know that Maple is commercial program, just like Mathematica? It's not free and there's no trial. You have to purchase it (I am ;) )

Title: Re: Good computer calculator program
Post by: gfb on May 16, 2008, 06:58:34 pm

I might be replying a bit late but...

Here's a picture of maple in use (so you can get a rough idea about it). lol it's a screenshot from 1 of my worksheets.

(http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9362/maplesamplezb8.jpg)