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Scientific calculators are kind of like wildlife tags, clearly identifying certain individuals as nerds, who themselves view the tricorder-size devices as badges of honor and marks of distinction. While handheld scientific calculators will long find a cherished place on many a belt, smartphones and other powerful handheld devices are starting to target their lunch money, in part by ganging up with freeware like EasyFindSoft's Smart Scientific Calculator. It's a free, totally portable, fully featured scientific calculator for your desktop, laptop, or other Windows devices. It's HTML-based, uses Flash player, and offers a widget you can embed in your blog or Web page.
Smart Scientific Calculator is portable freeware that runs as soon as you click its program file, so you can save the download anywhere, such as the desktop or a USB drive. It opens a compact browser page with a realistic 3D-style image of a calculator displayed. Apart from links to the developer's and sponsor's Web pages, the only other controls access the widget tool and return the program to its Home page, which refreshes the view. Smart Scientific Calculator has a full set of buttons, including sine, cosine, tangent, and square root as well as memory and recall functions. We entered a few calculations, and Smart Scientific Calculator marked each keystroke with a sound. There doesn't seem to be any way inside the program to defeat the sound effects, beyond muting our sound card, nor did we find any settings other than those for Flash Player, and no Help file or documentation.
Still, Smart Scientific Calculator did everything we'd expect in a student-level instrument. As we noted, it's capable of advanced calculations, but some users may find they need something specific it lacks, and there are no customization options, though it does check for updates. For most users who need a scientific calculator, it's more than up to the job, especially since it's free.
Publisher's Description
From EasyFindSoft:
A fully featured scientific calculator with convert fractions, calculate areas of circles, perform trigonometry and type out fancy equations. Looks like real calculator Scientific calculators are used widely in any situation where quick access to certain mathematical functions is needed, especially those such as trigonometric functions that were once traditionally looked up in tables; they are also used in situations requiring back-of-the-envelope calculations of very large numbers, as in some aspects of astronomy, physics, and chemistry. They are very often required for math classes from the junior high school level through college, and are generally either permitted or required on many standardized tests covering math and science subjects; as a result, many are sold into educational markets to cover this demand, and some high-end models include features making it easier to translate the problem on a textbook page into calculator input, from allowing explicit operator precedence using parentheses to providing a method for the user to enter an entire problem in as it is written on the page using simple formatting tools.
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"Wake up! Please use "Advanced Trigonometry Calculator"?"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
Simplest calculator.
Cons
Thinking about freeware we can find better! "Advanced Trigonometry Calculator" is a freeware application created by me that you can find in CNET, I'm not joking! Give a chance to search in Google about "advanced trigonometry calculator". My application is incredible! Give a read time to "About execution of application.txt" and you will know how to use it. And you always can contact me by e-mail! (renato_freitas91@hotmail.com)
Summary
Free and better exists just read my review!
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"Good Basic Calculator"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
The only free calculator I have found that can do fractional arithmetic and correctly use the order of operations.
Cons
1. The annoying bleep every time a key is hit. Please remove this from future versions. PLEASE!
2. Cannot convert a mixed number answer to an improper fraction. While you should be able to handle this minimum conversion yourself, it would be an excellent addition to make SHIFT Ab/c convert the mixed number to improper.Summary
Overall, this is a solid product. It was not intended to be a graphing calculator or a high-powered, does-everything, scientific calculator. There are plenty of those available. This is a solid, entry-level, scientific calculator that can handle fractions.
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"Bad Really Bad!"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
Its a bad U must not download it as its not useful ann do not have all keys it should have and niether, and makes noises while typing in it! i hope it would be useful! to U :)
Cons
no i dont know about cons! in it
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"No way Jose."
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
Well, it works, for what it's worth.
Cons
But it works terribly. Horrible interface, really weak. Do yourself a favor and just use Google as a calculator or something.
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"Awful, avoid"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
I suppose it does do calculations.
Cons
Horrible interface, nasty noises that you can't (apparently) disable.
Summary
Avoid
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"BEST FREE CALC ON THE SCENE"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
ZZZZZZZZZZ
Cons
ZZZZZZZZZZ
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"It's certainly a scientific calculator"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
It does scientific calculations, the trivial test of 5+6x3=23 is the correct answer whereas the Windows calculator gives 33 which is incorrect as per mathematics precedent rules.
Cons
It is noisy and it would not load if I blocked access to the internet thus it makes me a touch suspicious.
Summary
Ok if you want a basic calculator but nothing to get excited about.
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"Useless! Repeat - useless!"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
Looks a bit like a good calculator at a quick glance.
Cons
Its digital display and the whole calc'r is hard to read on my new 17 inch LCD screen. No Help button. Some important things missing - the standard Win XP calc does everything this pretends to do (and more) and has a sharp, clear image incl readout
Summary
Not obvious to use (and no Help), hard to read, necessary things missing, the normal familiar Windows one is MUCH better. Don't waste your time!
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"The only calculator that can do Fractions!!!"
Version: Smart Scientific Calculator 1.0
Pros
I gave this 4 stars because it has an (a/b/c) button to do fractions and is simple to understand.
Cons
It can't do mixed number fractions. Dose not do engineering, currency or any other fancy stuff, Beeps when you type, and the number pad will not work with the calculator.
Summary
Until I find another program that can do everything I'll keep this free version around in case I need to do basic math and fractions.
