Free Scientific Calculator for PC | W7 Compatible

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Does anyone know of a free scientific calculator for the PC? The one that comes with W7 is crap and I'm tired of using MATLAB or wolframalpha for the most basic of calculations.
 
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What's wrong with the Windows calculator? I use it all the time for basic calculations. In Standard mode, it's just a simple calculator, but in Scientific mode it has a lot more capabilities. There are also Programmer and Statistics modes.
 
Mark44 said:
What's wrong with the Windows calculator? I use it all the time for basic calculations. In Standard mode, it's just a simple calculator, but in Scientific mode it has a lot more capabilities. There are also Programmer and Statistics modes.

It doesn't like notations like 4e-5 and its a pain to use with trig functions. I like a calculator where I can type in an entire formula and have it not do anything until I hit enter or =.

http://www.calculator.org/download.aspx

I've been quite happy with this one (calc98). It's free.

Calc98 doesn't seem to be any better than the calculator that comes with windows. :confused:
 
I use a python shell (which has most of the functionality of MATLAB if you throw in some libraries)
 
This looks like a reasonable option. I prefer RPN, though, and the OP may not.

http://www.calculator.org/OrderESDWin.aspx
 
http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~belabas/pari/doc/faq.html
 
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