Is there a good calculator app?

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
In windows, I have used Calc98, which is good. Apple's calculator is a pile of rubbish: most notably, they programmed it using doubles instead of BCDs as they should have. In other words, with certain numbers there are noticable rounding errors, which are extremely annoying. Mostly, the annoyance is because the rounding errors throw-off quick visual inspection of the stack.



Does anyone know a calc app on the mac that supports RPN and doesn't have the annoying rounding errors?



Thanks.

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    Here's a good calculator...



    http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html



    ...and now, back to our regular programming...
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    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    Yeah the internal calculator isn't very good at all. There are a few at versiontracker:



    http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs...ating&dir=desc



    I like using programs like MathPad where you can put in whole expressions and then edit any part or copy/paste. I hate having to retype long calculations.
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  • Reply 3 of 9
    All of the ones on versiontracker are pretty lousy. Shucks. I suppose I'll consider writing one. . .
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    pbpb Posts: 4,255member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Splinemodel View Post


    Does anyone know a calc app on the mac that supports RPN and doesn't have the annoying rounding errors?



    Thanks.



    I don't know about RPN but this one can do arbitrary precision. It is a terminal application though, like bc.
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    russsrusss Posts: 115member
    You might want to check out PCalc.
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    mrsinmrsin Posts: 163member
    Give KoalaCalc a look: http://www.macropodsoftware.com/koalacalc/index.html



    It has simple and advanced operations, I use advanced for conversions and the like. It's free, so the price is right .
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  • Reply 7 of 9
    I use Longhand myself, no idea if it uses BCDs and/or RPNs.
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  • Reply 8 of 9
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    Originally Posted by RussS View Post


    You might want to check out PCalc.



    i use pcalc as well. nice program and it comes with a dashboard widget. very handy to be able to access and rpn calc while still being able to see the work windows.
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    tiptontipton Posts: 54member
    RLM Tools also makes a few HP simulators.

    http://www.rlmtools.com/
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