Scientific Calculator functions?

[Gandalf-the-Blue]

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Feature description

Add scientific calculator functions such as square, root, log, trignometry etc

Why do you want this feature?

Pretty useful for calculations

Additional information

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[fohfuu]

Agreed. Android has had these in the default calculator apps for a long time, in Calculator and then Exact Calculator. Powers, pi etc. are certainly needed.

[JarrColl]

Especially PI for calculating circumference, area of a circle, etc would be useful.

[IsHacker003]

Exponentiation (^) and square root functions are already there, but trigonometry and pi hasn't been added (yet).

[Angelk90]

Include advanced mathematical functions such as:

• [ ] Constant π
• [ ] Factorial (!)
• [ ] Logarithm base 2
• [ ] Hyperbolic functions (sinh, cosh, tanh)
• [ ] Inverse of hyperbolic functions (sinh^-1, cosh^-1, tanh^-1)
• [ ] Cubic root (for example, cbrt(27))
• [ ] Generic root function (for example, sqrt(25) or root(9, 3))

[Fra146]

This definitely needs work. It is a necessary feature of any calculator. I would focus on trying to imitate what already works, like the default android calculator.