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It would be a little silly for a major operating system to come without a
pocket calculator app, wouldn’t it? Yep.
Windows 10’s version has a standard mode, scientific mode, a
programmers’ mode, and a powerful list of conversions (time, power,
pressure, area, length, speed, and so on). See Figure 8-5.
Figure 8-5. The Calculator (left) offers three modes: Standard, Scientific, and Programmer. You can
press Alt+1, Alt+2, and Alt+3 for those modes.
Use the menu column to choose from a huge list of conversions: volume, length, weight, temperature,
energy, area, speed, time, power, and so on. Once you’ve specified the conversion type, specify what
units you want to convert to or from. Handy, really.
Calendar
Calendar is not so different from those “Hunks of the Midwest Police
Stations” paper calendars that people leave hanging on the walls for months
past their natural life spans. But it offers several advantages over paper
calendars. For example:
