Privacy
All your calculations are done only on your computer. No calculation or conversion is sent to our servers.
The history of your calculations is stored on your computer using a cookie. No history is sent to our servers.
We do not identify individual users or computers, and do not track information on individual users or computers.
Philosophy
This site was developed with the following philosophy:
- Software should not be installed
Everything should be web based. We can think of a few exceptions like 3D games, but the calculator is not one of them.
- Cool and intuitive software
Software should be easy to use, without a need for a manual.
User interfaces should be cool, the cooler the better.
What's wrong with conventional calculators?
Let’s take the windows calculator as an example.
- What's the deal with drawing buttons for each digit on the screen when we have such buttons on the keyboard?
- You can not type into a number. If you forgot a digit, you have to erase all last digits and retype them again.
Try to type 12345, and then change to 19345.
- You can perform just one operation at a time, no "complex" arithmetic like (2+3)*4
- Why is there no history of previous calculations? The entire memory is 1 number (good old M+ and MR).
PCs come today with megabytes of memory, why limit to one?
- It's inconsistent. Try this: runs the windows calculator, Select View | Standard and type 1+2*3=.
You should get 9 as the answer. Now change to View | Scientific, and type again 1+2*3=. This time you get 7.
- No unit conversions. Does your current calculator know how many feet are 100 meters? How many Fahrenheit is 32 Celsius?
And what's wrong with the Google calculator?
- Do you really have to send a request across the globe to compute 12*5? Can't your computer do this?
- No history of previous calculations
- Read the privacy section on the top of this page. They do what we don't.
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