Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Team (Surface Hub), HoloLens. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews, and compare ratings for Windows Calculator. The Calculator app for Windows 10 is a touch-friendly version of the desktop calculator in previous versions of Windows, and it works on both mobile and desktop devices. You can open multiple calculators at the same time in resizable windows on the desktop and switch between Standard, Scientific, Programmer, Date calculation, and Converter modes.
Windows 10 comes with a new interface and almost every app has a new look now. Opening an app is easy. You just need to type the first few initials of the app name in the search bar and you can jump to the app directly. In this post, we will learn about the Calculator app in Windows 10.
Windows 10 Calculator
Type ‘Calculator’ in the taskbar search bar and select the top result to open this window. If you wish it frequently, you may pin it to your Start Menu.
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The new Calculator app can be easily resized to square, horizontal or vertical shapes.
The features are almost similar to the old one. You can use it in different modes like Standard Calculator, Scientific Calculator, Programmer and Converter. Just click on the Hamburger menu on the top left corner and you can see the modes in a dropdown menu.
Standard Calculator
Here you can carry out normal calculations like additions, subtractions, divisions, multiplications, square roots, percentages and fractions. You can also save the calculations and view them in History tab given in the right panel of the app. Adding them to memory (M+) will save and display the figures under the Memory tab.
Scientific Calculator
This fully featured Scientific calculator mode of the Windows 10 Calculator is very helpful for the students and they can perform the typical mathematical calculation here. For example, Trigonometric functions in degrees and radians, and other standard functions like SIN, COS and TAN which are useful for the high school student.
They can save a number in Calculator memory and use it for further calculation.
Programmer
This mode of the calculator is specially designed for programmers which work for binary, decimal, binary, octal and hexadecimal calculations, allows QWORD, bitwise operations and Basic calculations.
Converter
The converter in Windows 10 Calculator can help you converting units which include Volume, Length, Weight and Mass, Temperature, Energy, Area, Speed, Time, Power, Data, Pressure and Angle. It also lets you convert tablespoons in teaspoons under the Volume category.
Do let us know how you like the new Windows 10 Calculator, or if there are any other features you would like to see in them.
Bonus Tip:
If you wish to get back the classic old look calculator back in Windows 10, you can download Microsoft Calculator Plus from here.
It offers Standard, Scientific and Conversion modes. The Conversion mode offers to convert length, area, energy, consumption, power, pressure, temperature, velocity, volume, weight and currencies. Exchange rates can be downloaded from the European Central Bank.
More Windows 10 Tips and Tricks here.
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Initial release | November 20, 1985; 33 years ago |
| Repository | github.com/Microsoft/calculator |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | All versions of Microsoft Windows, Xbox One System Software, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone |
| Type | Software calculator |
| License | MIT License |
Windows Calculator is a software calculator included in all versions of Windows.
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History[edit]
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A simple arithmetic calculator was first included with Windows 1.0.[1]
In Windows 3.0, a scientific mode was added, which included exponents and roots, logarithms, factorial-based functions, trigonometry (supports radian, degree and gradians angles), base conversions (2, 8, 10, 16), logic operations, statistical functions such as single variable statistics and linear regression.
Windows 9x[edit]
Until Windows 95, the highest representable number by the calculator is 21024, which is near 10308.
In Windows 98 and later, it uses an arbitrary-precision arithmetic library, replacing the standard IEEEfloating point library.[2] It offers bignum precision for basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and 32 digits of precision for advanced operations (square root, transcendental functions). The largest value that can be represented on the Windows Calculator is currently <1010,000 and the smallest is 10−9,999. (Also ! calculates the Gamma function which is defined over all real numbers, only excluding the negative integers).
Windows 2000, XP and Vista[edit]
In Windows 2000, digit grouping is added. Degree and base settings are added to menu bar.
The calculators of Windows XP and Vista were able to calculate using numbers beyond 1010000, but calculating with these numbers (e.g. 10^2^2^2^2^2^2^2…) does increasingly slow down the calculator and make it unresponsive until the calculation has been completed.
These are the last versions of Windows Calculator, where calculating with Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal/Octal numbers is included into scientific mode. In Windows 7, they were moved to programmer mode, which is a new separate mode that co-exists with scientific mode.
Windows 7[edit]
In Windows 7, separate programmer, statistics, unit conversion, date calculation and worksheets modes were added. Tooltips were removed. Furthermore, Calculator's interface was revamped for the first time since its introduction. The base conversion functions were moved to the programmer mode and statistics functions were moved to the statistics mode. Switching between modes does not preserve the current number, clearing it to 0.
The highest number is now limited to 1010000 again.
In every mode except programmer mode, one can see the history of calculations. The app was redesigned to accommodate multi-touch. Standard mode behaves as a simple checkbook calculator; entering the sequence 6 * 4 + 12 / 4 - 4 * 5 gives the answer 25. In scientific mode, order of operations is followed while doing calculations (multiplication and division are done before addition and subtraction), which means 6 * 4 + 12 / 4 - 4 * 5 = 7.
In programmer mode, inputting a number in decimal has a lower and upper limit, depending on the data type, and must always be an integer. Data type of number in decimal mode is signed n-bit[3] integer when converting from number in hexadecimal, octal, or binary mode.
| Data type | Size of data type (bits) | Lower limit | Upper limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byte | 8 | -128 | 127 |
| Word | 16 | -32,768 | 32,767 |
| Dword | 32 | -2,147,483,648 | 2,147,483,647 |
| Qword | 64 | -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 | 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 |
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On the right of the main Calculator, one can add a panel with date calculation, unit conversion and worksheets. Worksheets allow one to calculate a result of a chosen field based on the values of other fields. Pre-defined templates include calculating a car's fuel economy (mpg and L/100 km),[4] a vehicle lease, and a mortgage. In pre-beta versions of Windows 7, Calculator also provided a Wages template.
Windows 8.1[edit]
While the traditional Calculator is still included with Windows 8.1, a Metro-style Calculator is also present, featuring a full-screen interface as well as normal, scientific, and conversion modes.[5]
Windows 10[edit]
The Calculator in non-LTSC editions of Windows 10 is a Universal Windows Platform app. In contrast, Windows 10 LTSC (which does not include universal Windows apps) includes the traditional calculator, but which is now named win32calc.exe. Both calculators provide the features of the traditional calculator included with Windows 7, such as a unit conversions for volume, length, weight, temperature, energy, area, speed, time, power, data, pressure and angle, and the history list which the user can clear.
Both the universal Windows app and LTSC's win32calc.exe register themselves with the system as handlers of a 'calculator:' pseudo-protocol. This registration is similar to that performed by any other well-behaved application when it registers itself as a handler for a filetype (e.g. .jpg) or protocol (e.g. http:).
All Windows 10 editions (both LTSC and non-LTSC) continue to have a calc.exe, which however is just a stub that launches (via ShellExecute) the handler that is associated with the 'calculator:' pseudo-protocol. As with any other protocol or filetype, when there are multiple handlers to choose from, users are free to choose which handler they prefer— either via the classic control panel ('Default programs' settings) or the immersive UI settings ('Default Apps' settings) or from the command prompt via OpenWith calculator:.
In the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, a currency converter mode was added to Calculator.[6]
On 6 March 2019, Microsoft released the source code for Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License.[7]
Features[edit]
By default, Calculator runs in standard mode, which resembles a four-function calculator. More advanced functions are available in scientific mode, including logarithms, numerical base conversions, some logical operators, operator precedence, radian, degree and gradians support as well as simple single-variable statistical functions. It does not provide support for user-defined functions, complex numbers, storage variables for intermediate results (other than the classic accumulator memory of pocket calculators), automated polar-cartesian coordinates conversion, or support for two-variables statistics.
Calculator supports keyboard shortcuts; all Calculator features have an associated keyboard shortcut.[8]
Calculator in programmer mode cannot accept or display a number larger than a signedQWORD (16 hexadecimal digits/64 bits). The largest number it can handle is therefore 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (decimal 9,223,372,036,854,775,807). Any calculations in programmer mode which exceed this limit will overflow, even if those calculations would succeed in other modes. In particular, scientific notation is not available in this mode.
Calculator Plus[edit]
Calculator Plus is a separate application for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users that adds a 'Conversion' mode over the Windows XP version of the Calculator. The 'Conversion' mode supports unit conversion and currency conversion. Currency exchange rates can be updated using the built-in update feature, which downloads exchange rates from the European Central Bank.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Windows 1.01 - Graphical User Interface Gallery
- ^The Old New Thing Blog: When you change the insides, nobody notices
- ^Where n is either: 8 for Byte, 16 for Word, 32 for Dword, or 64 for Qword.
- ^Calculate Fuel Economy - Windows 7 (MalekTips)
- ^'Hands-On with Windows 8.1: New Utility Apps'. Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
- ^- Windows 10 Tip: Travel easier with the built-in currency converter
- ^Foley, Mary Jo (6 March 2019). 'Microsoft is open-sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub'. ZDNet. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^'Keyboard shortcuts'. Windows 8 Help. Microsoft. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
External links[edit]
- Windows Calculator on Microsoft Store