(Image from the slightly obsessed site.)ĭoes it sound like I’m gearing myself up to buy PCalc for the iPhone? I probably am. Unfortunately, I’m not the only one who loved the 15C.) (But not so much to pay the prices on eBay. It was tragically stolen or misplaced some 15 years ago-I still miss it. Having a landscape-mode RPN calculator would remind me of my lost and greatly lamented HP 15C, a wonderful calculator that took me through grad school and the early years of my career. Includes a Notification Center widget, and support for Handoff with the iOS 8 version. My preference for RPN isn’t overwhelming, but it is convenient to have the calculators you use regularly work the same way. PCalc is a full-featured, scriptable scientific calculator with support for hexadecimal, octal, and binary calculations, as well as an RPN mode, programmable functions, and an extensive set of unit conversions. PCalc also has an RPN mode, which matches my current handheld calculator (an HP 35s). So the awful display colors can be fixed, and there’s a tantalizing choice for “Easier to Read Digits.” Another screenshot shows us what those look like: I followed his link and made my way to the PCalc screenshots, where I found this configuration screen: And the less said about the color choice in the display, the better.īut I decided to put some trust in Gruber, who calls PCalc his favorite App Store app.
Calculator manufacturers were forced to use ugly fonts like that there’s no reason for a high resolution computer display to use them. PCalc, on the other hand, looks like this:ĭull buttons with no colors to distinguish key groups and a display with a too-cute segmented LCD font. Apple’s builtin calculator is really good looking and has a nice legible font for the display: It’s the second problem that made me shy away from PCalc on the iPhone. The default configuration of PCalc is ugly.I can’t think of any situation where and on-screen calculator is the best choice. For longer and more complicated calculations, something like Octave, which is both editable and programmable, makes the best use of my time and the computer’s power. For a few short calculations, a handheld calculator is almost always faster and easier to use. On-screen calculators are a kind of betwixt and between category of application.I’ve known about PCalc for the Mac for some time, but have never been interested in it because: Next post Previous post PCalc for iPhone?Ĭlose on the heels of my finding the iPhone calculator’s pi bug comes a Daring Fireball post with a heads up about a new version of PCalc for the iPhone.
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