Abakus, calculator for KDE

Abakus is a simple calculator for KDE, based on a concept of Roberto Alsina's. Think of it as bc (the command-line calculator) with a nice GUI.

Abakus wasn't the only calculator to be developed due to Roberto's brainstorm. You may also want to try Ariya Hidayat's SpeedCrunch (maintained/improved by Johan Thelin). In fact many of Abakus's user interface niceties were donated from SpeedCrunch.

Latest version is 0.91, which had the following changes from 0.90:

• Added ability to remove all functions or variables, from their respective list boxes on the right, in the right-click menu.
• Out-of-range numbers which are entered (like 2e300) are automatically converted to NaN
• "," is accepted as a decimal separator for the benefit of European users.
• Abakus displays numbers using the correct decimal separator.
• Long results are shown with the beginning of the answer by default, rather than the end. As a side effect the status text shows up on the left, which I find rather disappointing, perhaps that can be fixed with a little more work.

Some of its features include:

• Keyboard accessible.
• User-defined functions.
• Includes an RPN mode for old-school calculator users.
• Includes a scrollable history window, which can be hidden for compactness. When the history pane is hidden, results are shown directly in the edit line.
• Previous expressions can be entered using the up and down keys.
• Built-in functions, including a full suite of trigonometric, logarithmic, and exponential functions.
• Fully supports KDE, so it supports KDE features automatically, including some automatic DCOP support.
• The calculator supports using variables (which are saved between different runs).
• Automatic parentheses closing.
• Includes predefined values of pi and the natural exponential base (e).
• The last successful answer is stored in the variable ans.
• Compiled in C++ for fast startup speed.
• Both ^ and ** are supported for exponentiation.
• Exponentiation is (correctly) right-associative. What this means is that 2 ^ 3 ^ 2 returns 512 instead of 64.
• Expressions like 3 + -2 are accepted, instead of requiring a separate sign-inversion symbol like the TI family of calculators.

abakus in compact mode entering an expression (with the Result tooltip shown):

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You can download it here: abakus-0.91.tar.bz2 (372K)

Older versions:
abakus-0.90.tar.bz2 (367K)
abakus-0.85.tar.bz2 (322K)
abakus-0.80.2.tar.bz2 (128K)
abakus-0.76.tar.bz2 (55K)
abakus-0.75.tar.bz2 (53K)
abakus-0.70.tar.bz2 (51K)
abakus-0.61.tar.bz2 (44K)
abakus-0.60.tar.bz2 (37K)

SHA1 sums:

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MD5 sums:

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Notes:

• This download includes the source code and a build system appropriate for building the program under a KDE installation. To reduce the download size for my server, the normal KDE build system is not used, but instead a SCons-based system called bksys is used. Because of this, you may have trouble building. If you have problems, please let me know using the email address included in the README.
• You don't need flex or bison installed to build the program, as I've included the generated sources with the package.
  

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