Calculators on desktops (was Re: Octal)

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 aliensrcoolukyahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Yeah, but it's often hidden.

Not by default.
If it has been hidden, it is because somebody explicitly and
deliberately
was trying to keep you away from it.
Without user intervention Win2K installations will have it
in accessories.


> Until a few months ago I had no idea there
> was a Calculator available on Windows 2K
> (the company I work for generally uses
> Windows from 5 years ago as we have loads
> of computers to pay licenses for?).
ALL Windoze versions from 3.0 on (and possibly before) have
a calculator.

Sometime, on Windoze 3.10 or 3.11 (Windoze for Workgroups),
use that
calculator to subtract 3.10 from 3.11 to see what the
Windoze differences
are.

> It's hidden (along with other applications) in
> the "sys32/" (?) directory somewhere in the
> OS files (I'm no windows expert, though I
> know W95 beta version inside out from when
> I went on work experience).
Only hidden, if somebody has deliberately chosen to remove
it from the
Start/Programs/Accessories menu.


> Now whenever I need it and it's not listed
> under applications (we move about alot in the
> lab and use diff computers each week), I just
> do a quick filesearch, dump it on the desktop
> and on the main drop-up (?) menu that appears
> when you click on the Start button, incase
> I have a screen full of windows.
> Now almost everyone uses it (largely because
> calc's are so hard to find in the lab).
WHY BOTHER??
Go to Start/Run and type Calc.
or
Go to the command line, and type Calc.

> The "scientific" mode includes binary,
octal,
> hex and decimal, aswell as proper maths
> functions.

Yes, but it refuses to do anything but integers in anything
other than
decimal!

3.0h/2.0h gives 1.8h, NOT 1.0
11 binary/10 binary is 1.1 binary, NOT 1
3.14159decimal is NOT 3h.