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Need Recommendation For Calculator

startac4

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The calculator program that came with my phone is almost useless. It lacks important, for me, features: (1) a sign reverse (+ to -) key; (2) a register (memory) to save intermediary calculation results. I would appreciate if someone would recommend a basic but decent calculator program - without ads - which I could download.
 
I know this is going to sound stupid, but turn your phone to landscape. Often the stock calculators display a simple calculator in portrait and a scientific calculator in landscape. Here's screenshots from my S20 simply rotating the phone 90 degrees. :rolleyes:
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There is a calculator called HiPER calc that Will do what you need. I can't remember if I paid for it (long time ago, even for an old man) but if I did it was one of those buck ninety nine things. I liked it because I do the grocery shopping and it would wrap, and in my state, groceries are not taxed while other stuff is. But I have found it to be the most complete calculator.
 
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If you're like me, you sometimes run into mixed fractions: what is 8-3/8 x 4-7/16? Sure, I could break out a sheet of paper and start working out the lowest common denominator... or I could open Fraction Calculator. It's amazing, and well worth the paid version if fractional math is common in your life.
 
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If you're like me, you sometimes run into mixed fractions: what is 8-3/8 x 4-7/16? Sure, I could break out a sheet of paper and start working out the lowest common denominator... or I could open Fraction Calculator. It's amazing, and well worth the paid version if fractional math is common in your life.

I've not had to do mixed fractions since I left primary school in 1974. Although I saw plenty of them on the blackboards when I was teaching in a primary school a few years ago. And it's something that always reminds me of the scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when Neary is trying to teach his son' fractions using a model railway.

My current 7th grade students are now learning basic algebra, with trigonometry next.
 
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If you're like me, you sometimes run into mixed fractions: what is 8-3/8 x 4-7/16? Sure, I could break out a sheet of paper and start working out the lowest common denominator... or I could open Fraction Calculator. It's amazing, and well worth the paid version if fractional math is common in your life.
Where was this tool while I was in need? I was a trim carpenter / cabinet maker for fifty five years and fractions were an everyday math problem to be solved. It is easily done when practiced daily but I'm sure a nightmare if not.
 
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions and comments.
But...
(1) turning my LG cellphone changing its orientation from portrait to landscape does not reveal any additional functions or keys.
(2) I don't want a calculator program with ads, which according to the comments on the URL link, this one has.
(3) I don't need a scientific calculator. I just want an ordinary calculator with the two basic functions that my simple, real, Sharp calculator has: sign reversal and register (memory) for storing intermediary/temporary results.
 
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Everyone wait just a moment while I whip this out....

(nevermind, bad joke)

Anyway, Army Knife for Android has a number of useful attributes, and not the least of which is a calculator with the functions you desire (and more).

There are a number (depends upon your device) of very cool applications inside of this one app, and it is completely ad-free.

https://army-knife-for-android.en.uptodown.com/android
 
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions and comments.
But...
(1) turning my LG cellphone changing its orientation from portrait to landscape does not reveal any additional functions or keys.
(2) I don't want a calculator program with ads, which according to the comments on the URL link, this one has.
(3) I don't need a scientific calculator. I just want an ordinary calculator with the two basic functions that my simple, real, Sharp calculator has: sign reversal and register (memory) for storing intermediary/temporary results.
 
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