Mac Calculator App: 5 Hidden Features You Should Know About
The Mac Calculator app has five little-known features that can make life a little easier when any basic number crunching needs to be done on an Apple computer. For example, when adding up a column of numbers, converting a metric measurement to standard feet and inches, or getting the square root of pi, Mac's built-in calculator can do it all.
The calculator was one of the first portable computers ever made, a very innocuous little device that would last for many days on a single battery. Some even included a solar panel that could charge via indoor light, offering mathematical ease with no need to replace batteries or plug the calculator in. In modern times, an iPhone, Apple Watch, or Mac computer provides massive amounts of processing power but still includes the ever-present and helpful calculator.
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Apple recently highlighted the Mac Calculator app in the App Store, pointing out that it has several modes of operation, three that are tucked into the View menu, a little-known Convert menu, and a paper tape option in the Window menu. While the default is a basic calculator with only a few operations, many more are hidden inside. For example, a keyboard shortcut or menu selection switches to a unit converter that makes it easy to change from standard to metric, scale-up recipes from teaspoons to ounces, or see how much a £50 order costs in U.S. dollars. There's also a scientific mode with square root, trigonometry functions, and more. For accounting and record-keeping, a paper tape can be shown by choosing that option in the Window menu. Finally, programmer mode allows the use of binary, hexadecimal, and other number bases. To access the different
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