July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
866 pages
29h 18m
English
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Calculator
The new Calculator is far more potent than the humble, black-and-white, four-function program—the last remaining bit of the Mac OS's original 1984 design—that chugged along until 2002. The Tiger Calculator can act as a scientific calculator for students and scientists, a conversion calculator for metric and U.S. measures, and even a currency calculator for world travelers.
The little Calculator widget in the Dashboard is quicker to open, and it's great for quick four-function number crunches. But the standalone Calculator program is far more powerful. For example:
The calculator has three modes: Basic, Advanced, and—new in Tiger—Programmer (a hexadecimal calculator; see Figure 10-1). Switch among them by choosing the appropriate command from the View menu (or pressing ⌘-1 for Basic,⌘-2 for Advanced, or ⌘-3 for Programmer).
Tip
You can also cycle among the three modes by repeatedly clicking what, on most windows, is the Zoom button (the green round dot at upper-left). It's a first for the Mac—a Zoom button that changes function each time you click it—but it's kind of neat.
You can operate the calculator by clicking the onscreen buttons, but it's much easier to press the corresponding number and symbol keys on your keyboard.
Tip
If you have a laptop, don't miss the embedded numeric keypad, superimposed on the right side of the keyboard and labeled on the keys in a different color ink. When you press the Fn key in the lower-left corner of the keyboard, typing these keys produces ...
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