Calculate

About

Using Calculate

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

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 Constanat) and phi (Golden Ratio), but these can be looked up on the Internet. Clicking their icons inserts their numeric values.