{"id":1094,"date":"2009-04-27T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2009-04-27T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:23:50","slug":"pi-cubed-an-interesting-calculator-for-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pi Cubed&#8217; &#8211; An interesting calculator for the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone I know recently gave me a heads up about a cool looking calculator for the iPhone called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunsetlakesoftware.com\/picubed\">Pi Cubed from Sunset Lake Software<\/a>.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been able to test this because I don&#8217;t have the hardware but it looks like quite a nice way to use the iPhone as a calculator -the user interface is completely different to any other calculator I have seen.<\/p>\n<p>Features include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>34 digits of decimal precision<\/li>\n<li>A database of over 150 built-in equations from Finance, basic maths, physics, fluid mechanics etc.<\/li>\n<li>All variables in the built-in equations are annotated so you don&#8217;t need to remember what each term stands for.<\/li>\n<li>Email equations from the iphone in either plain text or Latex formats.<\/li>\n<li>Built in reference manual.<\/li>\n<li>Many built in scientific functions such as trig and inverse trig functions, logarithms to any real base, roots to any real power (square root, cube root etc), the error function and factorials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the video below for more details (streamed from the developer&#8217;s website)<\/p>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:02bf25d5-8c17-4b23-bc80-d3488abddc6b\" width=\"480\" height=\"336\" codebase=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/qtactivex\/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"video_qt\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"autoplay\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/sunsetlakesoftware_video.s3.amazonaws.com\/PiCubedOverview.mp4\" \/><param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"controller\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"video_qt\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div>Has anyone out there tried this out?\u00a0 Hopefully the developer will release a Windows Mobile version so I can check it out myself :)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone I know recently gave me a heads up about a cool looking calculator for the iPhone called Pi Cubed from Sunset Lake Software.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been able to test this because I don&#8217;t have the hardware but it looks like quite a nice way to use the iPhone as a calculator -the user interface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-math-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-hE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}