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<h1>Calculate<a class="headerlink" href="#calculate" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>About<a class="headerlink" href="#about" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<h2>Using Calculate<a class="headerlink" href="#using-calculate" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>For those who have used a scientific calculator, most of the functions of Calculate will be quite familiar.</p>
<p>The Toolbars are</p>
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<li>Activity, Calculate icon: Name session, Journal entry description, collaborate</li>
<li>Edit, scissors icon: Copy, Paste</li>
<li>Functions, {x}: Square, square root, reciprocal, exponential, power, logarithm, factorial</li>
<li>Trigonometry, triangle icon: sin, cos, tan, sin-1, cos-1, tan-1, sinh, cosh, tanh</li>
<li>Boolean, Venn diagram icon: and, or, =, !=</li>
<li>Constants, Greek letters icon: pi, e, gamma, phi</li>
<li>Plot: Hover menu offers Help</li>
<li>Degrees/Radian angle measure</li>
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<li>Number of digits to show: 6, 9, 12, 15</li>
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<h2>Getting help<a class="headerlink" href="#getting-help" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<p>The general help function is</p>
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<p>The list of help topics is available with the command</p>
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<p>including topics not supported on the menus. Help is not provided for the constants pi, e, gamma (Euler-Mascheroni Constanat) and phi (Golden Ratio), but these can be looked up on the Internet. Clicking their icons inserts their numeric values.</p>
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