NeoCal Advanced Calculator (4.5/5 stars, all ages, normally priced at $9.99) is today’s Amazon Free App of the Day, and it’s a great pick for students or professionals who need a calculator that can handle more than just the basics. From Amazon:
NeoCal is an advanced, award-winning calculator designed to work just like a real calculator, only better. The intuitive keyboard design provides efficient access to over 230 financial, statistical, scientific, programmer, conversion, and date and time functions without having to access menus or lists of functions. The large 12-digit display includes thousands separators and shows labels for calculated and stored results. Backspace, Undo, and Redo make correcting mistakes simple.
NeoCal is highly customizable to work the way you do. Enable the Precedence option to reduce entering parenthesis, or enable the RPN option to eliminate them completely. Enable up to four display lines to see current and previous results. Choose your own theme for improved readability.
NeoCal is a mature product that has been on the market for eleven years. It has been continually enhanced by suggestions from the user community, making it an even more effective and user-friendly tool. An extensive user guide containing many examples is included in the application.
SUMMARY OF BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS
– Scientific: trigonometric, hyperbolic, and logarithmic functions; degrees/radians conversions; time and angle conversions; physical constants
– Financial: time value of money, amortization; discounted cash flow analysis for internal rate of return and net present value; interest conversion between nominal and effective rates; margin and markup calculations
– Statistical: two variable statistical analysis including mean, weighted mean, standard deviation; linear regression forecasting, correlation coefficient; probability calculations
– Date and Time: date arithmetic; duration arithmetic and conversions including frames for digital video editing; moment conversions
– Programmer: base number conversions between binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal; 32-bit, 16-bit, and 8-bit signed and unsigned integer math calculations and conversions; logical and bit-manipulation operations
– Conversion: length, area, volume, speed, weight, temperature; unit arithmetic
SUMMARY OF FEATURES
– UI designed specifically for Android devices
– Unique Dynamic Keyboard technology
– User-selectable themes
– Multiple keyboard layouts
– 12-digit display with thousands separators
– Locale-based number, date, and time formatting
– Labeled results for clarity
– Optional RPN input method
– Selectable RPN stack size
– Up to four display lines
– 20 or 100 user registers
– Multi-level Undo/Redo
– Macro record and playback
– Extensive user guide included in the app
You may not have an engineer, programmer or scientist in the house who needs NeoCal, but if you’ve got a college-bound teen, why not go ahead and get this app now, while it’s free, and have it ready and waiting when the time comes for physics, trigonometry and calculus?