{"id":182,"date":"2004-03-17T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2004-03-17T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T17:08:12","slug":"calculator_prog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/03\/17\/calculator_prog\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculator programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this weeks exercises I needed to compute a lot of binomial coefficients. The &#8220;extended&#8221; Calculator for Mac OS X has a lot of prestorred Formulas nobody needs, but no key for this terms most needed formula. So I evaluated several Freeware Calculators.  I really wonder, why Calculator programmers try to imitate ordinary calculators whith their multiple assignments. The desktop is large enough, why do they add &#8220;Shift&#8221;, &#8220;Inverse&#8221; and &#8220;Option&#8221; Keys to their Calculator programs, when it costs nothing to add another button? If I install a scientific Calculator, I am not afraid of many buttons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this weeks exercises I needed to compute a lot of binomial coefficients. The &#8220;extended&#8221; Calculator for Mac OS X has a lot of prestorred Formulas nobody needs, but no key for this terms most needed formula. So I evaluated several Freeware Calculators. I really wonder, why Calculator programmers try to imitate ordinary calculators whith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/03\/17\/calculator_prog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calculator programs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}