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Arch. · Apr 17, 2003, 01:51 AM

How do I switch from radian to degree mode? Does anyone know if there is a graphing calculator for os 10?

clarkgoble · Apr 17, 2003, 03:05 AM

Ah Graphing Calculator. I remember when the first PowerPC based Macs came out. I'd saved up and bought one. That was the application that wowed me. I know Mathematica, Maple and others do more. But it really is beautiful in its simplicity.

Its sad that they've not ported it with Carbon. Don't they have the source code? Or was it a very limited agreement with PacificT? I note that at their web page they offer an upgrade to version 3.2 (although it looks horribly out of date and still OS9)

http://www.pacifict.com/Products.html

Tad expensive for what it does, in my opinion.

Anyways, back to the question. You can't switch between degrees and radians. You'll have to add the transform manually. I think the Pro version may do it, I'm not sure.

Arch. · Apr 17, 2003, 04:03 PM

how about maple or mathmatica? How are they? I am just doing really simple trig. stuff.

Ron Avitzur · Apr 17, 2003, 04:48 PM

You can type "sin 90 d e g r e e" into Graphing Calculator to compute the sine of 90 degrees. On U.S. keyboards, you can also type option-shift-8 to get the degrees symbol. This works on both the free and commercial versions of the software. Graphing Calculator is still included with Mac OS X in the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder, (which is different that the Applications folder which has OS X applications.)

Best regards,

Ron Avitzur

clarkgoble · Apr 17, 2003, 05:51 PM

Maple and Mathematica are probably *way* out of your price range if you are just doing trig.

javadesigner · Apr 17, 2003, 07:02 PM

Originally posted by Ron Avitzur:
Graphing Calculator is still included with Mac OS X in the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder, (which is different that the Applications folder which has OS X applications.)

Ron:

You are the developer of Graphing calcuator right ? Great
piece of software...

Best regards,

--j

Arch. · Apr 17, 2003, 08:47 PM

What are the names of the software developers that make maple and mathmatica. Do you have to have a dongle for them? Where might I find an evaluation or student copy? Can these programs do statics type things? Thanks guys.

Pierre B. · Apr 18, 2003, 02:29 AM

Originally posted by Ron Avitzur:
Graphing Calculator is still included with Mac OS X in the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder, (which is different that the Applications folder which has OS X applications.)

Anyone knowing if there exists (or if it will exist) a MacOS X version of Graphing Calculator? The MacOS 9 version does not support transparency in classic.

Pierre B. · Apr 18, 2003, 02:34 AM

Originally posted by Arch.:
What are the names of the software developers that make maple and mathmatica.

For Mathematica it is here

http://www.wolfram.com/

For Maple

http://www.maplesoft.com/

Ron Avitzur · Apr 18, 2003, 10:43 AM

Originally posted by Pierre B.:
Anyone knowing if there exists (or if it will exist) a MacOS X version of Graphing Calculator? The MacOS 9 version does not support transparency in classic.

A frequently asked question (http://www.PacificT.com/FAQ.html) which is discussed in detail at http://www.PacificT.com/MacOSX.html

wataru · Apr 18, 2003, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by Pierre B.:
Anyone knowing if there exists (or if it will exist) a MacOS X version of Graphing Calculator?

Their site basically says, "no, and if you want it ported then you'll have to pay for development because we're not releasing the source code."

Graph-O-Matic is a great ($20 shareware) alternative for OS X.