KCalc

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KCalc
Developer(s) Evan Teran, Klaus Niederkrüger, Bernd Johannes Wuebben, The KDE Team
Stable release
23.08.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 9 November 2023
Repository
Operating system Unix-like
Type Math, Calculator
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website utils.kde.org/projects/kcalc

KCalc is a scientific software calculator integrated with the KDE Gear. [2]

Contents

Functions

KCalc includes trigonometric functions, logic operations, saved previous results, copy and paste, a configure UI, and statistical computations. The history function uses a stack method. [3] [4] KCalc also supports boolean operations. [5]

KCalc does not support graphing. [3]

Since version 2 (included in KDE 3.5) KCalc offers arbitrary precision.

See also

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