Monday, March 7, 2011

Application Review - Chromey Calculator

While looking for a calculator application to use on the CR48, I found a number of the usual types of calculators, and most were very usable.  But then I came across the Chromey Calculator.  For pure nerd-appeal, this has got to be one of the best.  As you can see from this screenshot
the calculator lets you do a number of interesting things.  Entering "distance to the moon in miles" will return the value of that which you can then assign to a variable (denoted by the @ symbol) for use in further calculations. Basic and advanced math functions are supported as well as some statistical functions and trigonometric functions.  You can retrieve any numerical value that you can think of and use it in your calculations.  Want to find the speed of a body falling off of the Empire State Building?  Get the height of the building and the constant for acceleration due to gravity, plug it into the formula and you've got your answer.  Not sure what the formula is?  You only need to enter a phrase to lookup the formula you need.
Lots of fun to just poke around and find some interesting data, like the distance to Betelgeuse in Light years (641.8) or the diameter of the Milky Way (100,000ly) and great for balancing the checkbook
Check it out in the Google App Store.


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