Activities/Calculate

The Calculate Activity is an infix-notation graphing calculator. Type an expression or select components from the toolbars, and press Return to evaluate it.

help(index)

gives a list of topics, mostly mathematical function names, but also including plot.

help(plot)

explains the syntax of the plot command for graphing an expression in a given range. For example,

plot(sin(x), x=0..2*pi)

Resources

• Sugar Activity Library page
• Trac Tickets: Sugar Labs, OLPC

Release notes

Note: The contents of this section have been transcluded from another page, 0.86/Calculate:

0.86/Calculate

Calculate

Introduction

The Calculate Activity is an infix-notation graphing calculator. Type an expression or select components from the toolbars, and press Return to evaluate it.

More Info: Activities/Calculate

What is new for users

The new toolbar design has been added to Calculate. Plot, degree/radians, scientific notation, and precision buttons are always visible in the main toolbar (as well as the Stop button).

The activity toolbar is used to name the session, share, and keep a version.

The edit toolbar is used for copy and paste

The algebra toolbar is used for common functions such as square and square root

The trigonometry toolbar is used for trigonometry functions: sin. cos, etc.

The boolean toolbar is used for operators: and, or, and not

The constants toolbar is used for constants pi, e, Euler's Constant, and the Golden Ratio

31

• Improve toolbar design (Gary C. Martin)
• Add some constants (Gary C. Martin)
• Parser improvements

30

• Add support for matplotlib as plotting backend
• Add support for complex plot ranges, e.g. -2*pi..2*pi
• Fix superscript display bug

29

• Fix plotting of functions
• Fix parsing of (in)equalities
• Fix toolbar button issues

What is new for developers

No News

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Will be generated by the translation team

Compatibility

Note here if compatibility to an older version of the activity or an older Sucrose version (e.g. 0.84) broke

Detailed changes

• New toolbar design
• Add support for matplotlib as plotting backend
• Add support for complex plot ranges, e.g. -2*pi..2*pi
• Fix superscript display bug
• Fix plotting of functions
• Fix parsing of (in)equalities
• Fix toolbar button issues

Open tickets

• #346 Calculate does not function properly at non-XO screen resolutions
• #383 Review Calculate Tickets still in OLPC Trac
• #515 Factorial and boolean equality not working
• #845 Issues in calculator
• #1111 trig functions in Calculate ignoring deg setting
• #1332 Provide alternate number base display support in Calculate

Credits

Gary C. Martin, Reinier W. Heeres