Windows Calculator - With Power

If you've used the Windows Calculator (under Accessories on the Start Menu), you may think that you have only the most basic and lackluster calculating tool for your use.

There's where you'd be wrong. By default, the Calculator starts up in Standard Mode, but you can switch to Scientific Mode from the view menu.


This gives you a much more functional calculator that can handle computations in decimal, binary, hex, and octal. It also offers many other advanced features. For some of them, such as the statistical calculations, you may wish to read the help file for advice on how to use them properly.

Also from the View menu, you can choose Digit Grouping, which will insert commas when calculating in decimal, and spaces when calculating in hex. This makes it much easier to rea