Question about comparing two freeware calculators

[Anonymous]

This question is for anyone who has used both
ESBCalc from http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm
and
Karen's Calculator from http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcalc.asp.

Which one do you like better, and why?

Thanks!

 

[mike555]

=== I like Moffsoft free calc from ...
http://www.moffsoft.com/freecalc.htm .. though it might be too
basic for your needs======

 

[Anonymous]

mike555 used his keyboard to write :

=== I like Moffsoft free calc from ...
http://www.moffsoft.com/freecalc.htm .. though it might be too
basic for your needs======

You are correct. I need a calculator with more capabilities than
Moffsoft's freeware, although Moffsoft has a great product.

 

[Roger Johansson]

This question is for anyone who has used both
ESBCalc from http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm and
Karen's Calculator from http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcalc.asp.

Which one do you like better, and why?

Karen's is very suited for people calculating big sums of money, if you
need all the decimals to be correct, down to the last cent of a
millions of billions dollar sum.
And other people with silly demands on the number of correct decimals.

ESB is more suited for scientists and engineers, as it has all the
scientific functions needed. Engineers have no need for silly precision
so there is no need for more than say 10 correct decimals. (I don't
know how many correct decimals ESB actually gives.)

I use ESB because I need scientific functions.
But I could have use for Karen's too, now that I have tried it, because
it can remember stuff after a restart.

A third alternative, a graphic view scientific calculator
If you go to school and learn advanced math you might
need a graphic calculator like this one.
http://www.graphcalc.com/

 

[Anonymous]

WOW! I'm gonna take a look at GraphCalc! THANKS!!!

 

[Roger Johansson]

WOW! I'm gonna take a look at GraphCalc! THANKS!!!

There is a library of scripts for this calculator on the home page.
Can be used for common formulas and long calculation sequences,
and can also create animated graphs.