November 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM by Dr. Drang
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PCalc is the calculator app I use on the iPhone. It costs $10 at the App Store, which makes it one of the more expensive apps there, but I’ve found it worth every penny. There’s a lot to PCalc, so to give it its due I plan to write a few blog posts covering its many strengths and its few weaknesses.
I came to PCalc out of frustration with the iPhone’s built-in calculator. I was looking forward to the new scientific calculator when Apple started announcing the features of the iPhone 2.0 system software. In portrait-mode it was still just a four-function calculator, as it had been in iPhone 1.x. But it looked like a fully-featured scientific calculator in landscape mode. I found some oddities when I first started using it, but I was generally satisfied and didn’t see any reason to buy a 3rd-party calculator.
Then I found an inexplicable and devastating bug in the way it handled π. (Example: 2 × π + 5 = 7
) Calculations with π are common in my work, and I can’t use a calculator with this bug. Apple took its time acknowledging my bug report; by the time they responded I’d already bought PCalc. The π bug was fixed in the iPhone 2.1 update, but I didn’t realize it for quite a while because once I started using PCalc, I never looked back.
Comparisons of PCalc to the built-in calculator are inevitable, so let’s get them out of the way. Why would anyone want to spend $10 on an application that, seemingly, duplicates an app that comes free with the phone? Here’s my answer:
Another feature I think is really clever—but which I don’t use because I keep PCalc in RPN mode—is the parenthesis depth display. Let’s say you’re doing
in algebraic mode. As you tap the open parenthesis key, both parenthesis keys change color and a number representing the depth appears between them. Here’s what it looks like after entering the 12
in the formula above:
As you tap the close parenthesis key, the number decreases; the number disappears and the keys return to their original color when you close the last parenthesis. The built-in calculator has nothing like this.
Future posts in this series will concentrate on the features and functions of PCalc itself, not just how it stacks up1 against Apple’s calculator. I’ll put links to the later posts here.
Here’s the second post, covering PCalc’s appearance settings.
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