GNOME Calculator

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GNOME Calculator
Stable release
43.0.1 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 16 September 2022;2 years ago (16 September 2022)
Repository
Written in C, Vala
Operating system Unix-like
Type Software calculator
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Website apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Calculator   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

GNOME Calculator, formerly known as gcalctool, is the software calculator integrated with the GNOME desktop environment. It is programmed in C and Vala and part of the GNOME Core Applications.

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The GNOME calculator uses the common infix notation for binary functions, such as the four basic arithmetic operations. Unlike many other calculators, it uses prefix notation, not postfix notation for unary functions. So to calculate e.g. the sine of one, the user must push the keys sin+1+=, not 1+sin, as on many other calculators.

The decimal separator on the number pad is based on the general keyboard layout since version 3.12.3. [2]

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References

  1. "gnome-calculator 43.0.1" . Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. "gnome-calculator 3.12.3". 2013-06-15.