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Calculate
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About
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.. image :: ../images/Activity-Calculate.png
Using Calculate
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For those who have used a scientific calculator, most of the functions of Calculate will be quite familiar.
The Toolbars are
* Activity, Calculate icon: Name session, Journal entry description, collaborate
* Edit, scissors icon: Copy, Paste
* Functions, {x}: Square, square root, reciprocal, exponential, power, logarithm, factorial
* Trigonometry, triangle icon: sin, cos, tan, sin-1, cos-1, tan-1, sinh, cosh, tanh
* Boolean, Venn diagram icon: and, or, =, !=
* Constants, Greek letters icon: pi, e, gamma, phi
* Plot: Hover menu offers Help
* Degrees/Radian angle measure
* Scientific/Engineering notation
* Number of digits to show: 6, 9, 12, 15
* Base: Decimal, binary, octal, hex
* Exit
Getting help
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To see a help option for plot, enter the command
``help(plot)``
on the text entry line.
The general help function is
``help()``
The list of help topics is available with the command
``help(index)``
including topics not supported on the menus. Help is not provided for the constants pi, e, gamma (Euler-Mascheroni Constant) and phi (Golden Ratio), but these can be looked up on the Internet. Clicking their icons inserts their numeric values.
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