BetterCalc

by jay.packer

A Widget calculator that actually works! BetterCalc uses a little logic so that things like 80.57 - 50.57 - 30 actually equal 0, instead of something like -7.1E15.

The Widget is also highly customizable, so that you can change its size and colors to suit your taste.
Current Version: 1.0.5

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  1. jay.packer
    April 09, 2008 · version 1.0

    @nir-melamoud

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    I'm going to vent a little frustration here... I've worked painstakingly to deliver a calculator that overcomes the rounding bugs that were inescapable due to javascript's floating point errors, which are built into the wdiget engine. I think I've come up with a very good solution, and my calculator gives accurate answers. (Try 80.57 - 50.57 - 30 on all the other widget calculators and see if you get an answer of 0...)

    The calculator is not doing the wrong math. I NEVER intended More

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  2. nir-melamoud
    April 09, 2008 · version 1.0

    Calculator is doing wrong math

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    When you type 2+2*2 it should give a result of 8 , and it should be 6.
    the widget does not take into account the order of operands

    most simple calculators do that, ones that are cost more then few $ knows the rules of math

    you should fix that. (windows calc make the same mistake)

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  3. chiz100
    March 20, 2008 · version 1.0

    Simple, all you need

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    All the other calculator widgets have a million different things I don't care to use. I just wanted a simple, elegant widget that could be used for basic calculating. This is it.

    Nothing more, nothing less. What more can you say? It's great. It even supports keyboard input!

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  4. Patrick Steinke
    February 16, 2008 · version 1.0

    @jay.packer

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    Why don't you put in an own updatefunction? My Widgets gets updates from my own server, because waiting on the Gallery Update takes sometimes much too long.

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  5. jay.packer
    February 15, 2008 · version 1.0

    new version coming...

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    I just submitted a new version, 1.0.2 that should fix the keyboard input for keyboards without a keypad. It will hopefully appear in the gallery soon.

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