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Later models of Power Macintosh computers included newer versions of the Graphing Calculator program. At one time, versions were available for free download for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10.3, and Mac OS X 10.4. However, these versions may lack some of the features of the original version 1.0 program and may include promotion for the more advanced, commercial version of the software. A Windows version (offered for sale) was at one time renamed NuCalc.
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Graphing Calculator Version 4 was published for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Pacific Tech also offers free-of-charge downloads of a viewer for saved graphs.[3] Subsets of functionality are available as separate applications: Graphing Calculator Lite, Equation Calculator, Data Calculator, 2D Grapher, 3D Grapher, and 4D Grapher.
Our antivirus system always scans the downloadable files for spyware. It scanned this program and reported that it is clean to use. NuCalc refers to Lifestyle, according to its main functionality. These installation files are often used to set up this tool: CALC.EXE and NuCalc.exe. The most popular versions of the program are 4.0 and 2.0. The fact that Pacific Tech is the developer of the software is well-known by its users. Notice that it is compatible with the following OSs: Windows 7 32-bit.
Out of 10 or 20 programs that plots curves and surfaces i've tried, I think this is the best. Most versatile and most easy to use. Go download a demo and see for yourself. If you want a plotting program for your highschool or college installation, I suggest this one.
SharetwitterfacebookThis Program Changed My Life (Score:5, Interesting)by Ariane 6 ( 248505 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 02:54AM (#11156685) I was struggling through algebra I not long after this program came out (1995). I just wasn't "getting it". I know the phrase is cliched now, but this program was just so *intuitive* that after a few days of fiddling I understood almost all the math I'd ever take right up to 1st semester calculus on a conceptual level.
For me, at least, seeing things in motion (that nifty little value slider) made the concepts just click. Once they were there, the actual mathematical manipulation was much easier, because I was able to visualize "they way this should work out". My teachers were trying to show it on a static chalkboard, and it just wasn't getting through.
I just got my BS in Physics, and without Graphing Calculator, I doubt I'd be where I am today. To the author, if he reads this:
Thank You.SharetwitterfacebookRe:This Program Changed My Life (Score:5, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 03:30AM (#11156796)Homepage Thank you! May I quote you on our web site?Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:This Program Changed My Life (Score:4, Interesting)by Ariane 6 ( 248505 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 04:11AM (#11156899) You betcha!Parent SharetwitterfacebookPowerCalc (Score:4, Interesting)by Domini ( 103836 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 03:50AM (#11156843)Journal On a side note, something similar and free already exists for windows:
You can download Powercalc.exe [microsoft.com] from Microsoft's XP PowerToy page [microsoft.com].
SharetwitterfacebookRe:High Praise For Mediocrity (Score:5, Interesting)by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 09:37PM (#11155286)Homepage Now if they could only find someone that'd work night and day to invent the 2-button mouse they'd have it made.
Actually there is only one person preventing a multibutton mouse, unfortunately no one outranks him. He won't even allow a build-to-order option when you are ordering online.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:High Praise For Mediocrity (Score:5, Insightful)by michaeldot ( 751590 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 10:04PM (#11155449) Yep, the evil Steve Jobs personally drove up to my door in his Mercedes and threatened physical violence when I bought my Logitech mouse for my G5.
And I'm still suffering from the torture he inflicted when I dared to use the scrollwheel.
I can't imagine what he did to the Mac OS X engineers when he found they'd built full support for multiple buttons and into the OS, or the fact that all their iApps - iTunes, iPhoto - support full functional scrollwheel movements.
Hmm...
Or maybe's it's because Apple's QA people know that best way to have software designed to be easy to use is to not encourage them to use right-click kludges. It is impossible to use a Windows machine without a two button mouse and learning context menus. That is not true of Mac OS X.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:Score Chart (Score:5, Insightful)by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 09:47PM (#11155350)Homepage Great... People doing free work: Apple-1 Linux-Several Million
So what, its not like lots of people or hours translates to quality. Look at shareware in general, look at MS. There is only a very small core of people that have made Linux useful. Few people can read source code, fewer still can write working code at all, fewer still are able to write good code.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:Slashdotted already (Score:3, Funny)by chris_mahan ( 256577 ) writes: In this case you have to say "burst into flames."Re:motivation same as OSS (Score:3, Insightful)by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes: to me, it seems that many of the same things that motivated this (these?) guy(s) are the same as the motivation for being an Open Source Programmer. Just my .02
You think there is something new about writing code for free and sharing it with others? It predates "open source", it predates Linux, it predates GNU, ... The only thing different nowadays is that more people have computers and that communication and distribution is much easier. Well that and religious/political overtones about all of this.
InRe:PovRay. (Score:5, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 11:17PM (#11155838)Homepage heh. If there are any PovRay developers reading this, send me an e-mail. I'd like to discuss this. It's on the big list of features for future releases. [pacifict.com]Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:The real story (Score:3, Insightful)by Ageless ( 10680 ) writes: He didn't do the work for a corporate entity. He did the work for himself, and his users. He got his software on millions on machines, which to many programmers is the best pay you can receive.Re:formatting (Score:3, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: Ok. Done.Re:This sounds like a Wired story (Score:5, Informative)by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 11:38PM (#11155939) I'm too lazy to figure out what my account is, so I guess I'm an anonymous coward, but I worked with Ron at the time, and still hang out with him. The story is true, and NuCalc/Graphing Calculator got started just as he describes. I even have the embroidered NuCalc shirt he gave me as a memento.
Now, should you see anything similar in some upcoming release of some unspecified operating system, check to see whether it's the real deal (Graphing Calculator from PacificT [pacifict.com]), or something else.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:RMS on Hacking and the Graphing Calculator (Score:4, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: on Thursday December 23, 2004 09:48PM (#11173795)Homepage I have long considered releasing GC under an open source license. While I have total sympathy and support for the open source movement and philosophy, my analysis is a pragmatic one. My goal is to best serve my users, and adopt a strategy to best accomplish that. (I think the events of the story give proof to that.)
Remember that my software's users are primarily high school students or younger.
An open source release would cause the existing revenue stream to vanish, making it impossible to continue to support existing customers or maintain and develop the code base. Pacific Tech has provided free support for its customers and would like to continue to do so, and continue to maintain the product on Mac OS and on Windows. The reason GC is useful is the ease-of-learning and ease-of-use of its user interface. I do not know of a product which demonstrates the open source community's ability to produce excellent user interfaces.
In a high school classroom where any time spent on software is time taken away from teaching, usability is the most important feature of our product. In these respects, open sourcing the code could prove to be a large disservice to our customers.
This is educational software for high school users. There are remarkably few people in high schools, either students or teachers, with both the skills and the time to contribute to open source development. This removes one of the major motivations for open source development - the "I need this tool for myself" reason for working on something.
Furthermore, the reason this software is so useful to schools is not how powerful it is or how many features it has - it is completely unlike the classical monolithic mathematical applications of yore. It is useful due to the restraint in choosing a minimalist feature set and interface to address teachers' and students' needs with elegance. I fear that as an open source project, the incentive structures would lead down the slippery slope of creeping featuritis, which, while it might create something cool for hackers, will do little to help children learn math and like math.
I would like to find a way to have the best of both worlds. Genuinely open and free software, for all that that implies, and the ability to continue to create great software for people that are not programmers, for people that hate math, and know nothing about computers, and to have it installed at the factory, so that it actually reaches the people that need it where it can do some good.Parent SharetwitterfacebookThere may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.
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Nucalc 4.0 Download
Download https://t.co/nHQf9eBAOU
Graphing Calculator Version 4 was published for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Pacific Tech also offers free-of-charge downloads of a viewer for saved graphs.[3] Subsets of functionality are available as separate applications: Graphing Calculator Lite, Equation Calculator, Data Calculator, 2D Grapher, 3D Grapher, and 4D Grapher.
Our antivirus system always scans the downloadable files for spyware. It scanned this program and reported that it is clean to use. NuCalc refers to Lifestyle, according to its main functionality. These installation files are often used to set up this tool: CALC.EXE and NuCalc.exe. The most popular versions of the program are 4.0 and 2.0. The fact that Pacific Tech is the developer of the software is well-known by its users. Notice that it is compatible with the following OSs: Windows 7 32-bit.
Out of 10 or 20 programs that plots curves and surfaces i've tried, I think this is the best. Most versatile and most easy to use. Go download a demo and see for yourself. If you want a plotting program for your highschool or college installation, I suggest this one.
SharetwitterfacebookThis Program Changed My Life (Score:5, Interesting)by Ariane 6 ( 248505 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 02:54AM (#11156685) I was struggling through algebra I not long after this program came out (1995). I just wasn't "getting it". I know the phrase is cliched now, but this program was just so *intuitive* that after a few days of fiddling I understood almost all the math I'd ever take right up to 1st semester calculus on a conceptual level.
For me, at least, seeing things in motion (that nifty little value slider) made the concepts just click. Once they were there, the actual mathematical manipulation was much easier, because I was able to visualize "they way this should work out". My teachers were trying to show it on a static chalkboard, and it just wasn't getting through.
I just got my BS in Physics, and without Graphing Calculator, I doubt I'd be where I am today. To the author, if he reads this:
Thank You.SharetwitterfacebookRe:This Program Changed My Life (Score:5, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 03:30AM (#11156796)Homepage Thank you! May I quote you on our web site?Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:This Program Changed My Life (Score:4, Interesting)by Ariane 6 ( 248505 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 04:11AM (#11156899) You betcha!Parent SharetwitterfacebookPowerCalc (Score:4, Interesting)by Domini ( 103836 ) writes: on Wednesday December 22, 2004 03:50AM (#11156843)Journal On a side note, something similar and free already exists for windows:
You can download Powercalc.exe [microsoft.com] from Microsoft's XP PowerToy page [microsoft.com].
SharetwitterfacebookRe:High Praise For Mediocrity (Score:5, Interesting)by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 09:37PM (#11155286)Homepage Now if they could only find someone that'd work night and day to invent the 2-button mouse they'd have it made.
Actually there is only one person preventing a multibutton mouse, unfortunately no one outranks him. He won't even allow a build-to-order option when you are ordering online.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:High Praise For Mediocrity (Score:5, Insightful)by michaeldot ( 751590 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 10:04PM (#11155449) Yep, the evil Steve Jobs personally drove up to my door in his Mercedes and threatened physical violence when I bought my Logitech mouse for my G5.
And I'm still suffering from the torture he inflicted when I dared to use the scrollwheel.
I can't imagine what he did to the Mac OS X engineers when he found they'd built full support for multiple buttons and into the OS, or the fact that all their iApps - iTunes, iPhoto - support full functional scrollwheel movements.
Hmm...
Or maybe's it's because Apple's QA people know that best way to have software designed to be easy to use is to not encourage them to use right-click kludges. It is impossible to use a Windows machine without a two button mouse and learning context menus. That is not true of Mac OS X.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:Score Chart (Score:5, Insightful)by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 09:47PM (#11155350)Homepage Great... People doing free work: Apple-1 Linux-Several Million
So what, its not like lots of people or hours translates to quality. Look at shareware in general, look at MS. There is only a very small core of people that have made Linux useful. Few people can read source code, fewer still can write working code at all, fewer still are able to write good code.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:Slashdotted already (Score:3, Funny)by chris_mahan ( 256577 ) writes: In this case you have to say "burst into flames."Re:motivation same as OSS (Score:3, Insightful)by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes: to me, it seems that many of the same things that motivated this (these?) guy(s) are the same as the motivation for being an Open Source Programmer. Just my .02
You think there is something new about writing code for free and sharing it with others? It predates "open source", it predates Linux, it predates GNU, ... The only thing different nowadays is that more people have computers and that communication and distribution is much easier. Well that and religious/political overtones about all of this.
InRe:PovRay. (Score:5, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 11:17PM (#11155838)Homepage heh. If there are any PovRay developers reading this, send me an e-mail. I'd like to discuss this. It's on the big list of features for future releases. [pacifict.com]Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:The real story (Score:3, Insightful)by Ageless ( 10680 ) writes: He didn't do the work for a corporate entity. He did the work for himself, and his users. He got his software on millions on machines, which to many programmers is the best pay you can receive.Re:formatting (Score:3, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: Ok. Done.Re:This sounds like a Wired story (Score:5, Informative)by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 11:38PM (#11155939) I'm too lazy to figure out what my account is, so I guess I'm an anonymous coward, but I worked with Ron at the time, and still hang out with him. The story is true, and NuCalc/Graphing Calculator got started just as he describes. I even have the embroidered NuCalc shirt he gave me as a memento.
Now, should you see anything similar in some upcoming release of some unspecified operating system, check to see whether it's the real deal (Graphing Calculator from PacificT [pacifict.com]), or something else.Parent SharetwitterfacebookRe:RMS on Hacking and the Graphing Calculator (Score:4, Interesting)by avitzur ( 105884 ) writes: on Thursday December 23, 2004 09:48PM (#11173795)Homepage I have long considered releasing GC under an open source license. While I have total sympathy and support for the open source movement and philosophy, my analysis is a pragmatic one. My goal is to best serve my users, and adopt a strategy to best accomplish that. (I think the events of the story give proof to that.)
Remember that my software's users are primarily high school students or younger.
An open source release would cause the existing revenue stream to vanish, making it impossible to continue to support existing customers or maintain and develop the code base. Pacific Tech has provided free support for its customers and would like to continue to do so, and continue to maintain the product on Mac OS and on Windows. The reason GC is useful is the ease-of-learning and ease-of-use of its user interface. I do not know of a product which demonstrates the open source community's ability to produce excellent user interfaces.
In a high school classroom where any time spent on software is time taken away from teaching, usability is the most important feature of our product. In these respects, open sourcing the code could prove to be a large disservice to our customers.
This is educational software for high school users. There are remarkably few people in high schools, either students or teachers, with both the skills and the time to contribute to open source development. This removes one of the major motivations for open source development - the "I need this tool for myself" reason for working on something.
Furthermore, the reason this software is so useful to schools is not how powerful it is or how many features it has - it is completely unlike the classical monolithic mathematical applications of yore. It is useful due to the restraint in choosing a minimalist feature set and interface to address teachers' and students' needs with elegance. I fear that as an open source project, the incentive structures would lead down the slippery slope of creeping featuritis, which, while it might create something cool for hackers, will do little to help children learn math and like math.
I would like to find a way to have the best of both worlds. Genuinely open and free software, for all that that implies, and the ability to continue to create great software for people that are not programmers, for people that hate math, and know nothing about computers, and to have it installed at the factory, so that it actually reaches the people that need it where it can do some good.Parent SharetwitterfacebookThere may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.
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