iota-calc - 1.8.1

Okay.. have you ever tried to use a generic calculator on the computer or iPhone, tried to write out a long equation, to see that you can only see the current number or the most recent number written? have you ever wanted to write 3(5+4/1.02)^0.02? well, if you've ever tried that on another mac calculator or the iPhone calculator, you would have been extremely disappointed. in this calculator, the functionality is that of a graphing calculator - you can write out long equations, be able to track your progress as you type, use parentheses within parentheses and not have to worry about whether it's going to do what you asked it to do or not. if it looks the way you would write it, it will work! yes, the (^) button does not work as a power button, which is very disappointing, but the replacement is simply two multiply buttons! asterisks! (**) !!!!!!!!... or, if you want to make it more complicated on yourself, you can write Pow(base, power) ex: Pow(2, 2) = 4. although you cannot write 5Pow(2,2) and get 20, you can write 5(Pow(2,2)) or 5*Pow(2,2) and get 20, or you can even type 5*2**2 and get 20!! the ability to write things out as you would on a graphing calculator is EXTREMELY important to me in a calculator, and this is the calculator! if i ever get an iPhone, i will surely have to find an iPhone application that can replace the stupid, simple iPhone calculator. (That's right Apple, i love you guys, but your calculator, even the scientific one, sucks *sadface*). ONE MORE THING!!!!!.... Mr. Developer and writer of Iota-Calc, this application seems to be missing certain functions! such as Logs!!! and Natural Logs!!! and though Matrices are not extremely important to me, it seems like it would be a great thing to add!!! Thank you! n_n

I'll break down why this is bad:

- Clicking any function button doesn't add parentheses for the functions, even though it requires them.
- There's no way to go back a step in the guided tour and there's no way to just pause the tour and still be able to switch steps.
- The documentation doesn't cover what the buttons do, what the syntax is for each function, etc, although it gladly spends considerable time teaching programmers what a debugger is... as if we didn't already know. Now there's some screwed up priorities.
- It brags about following C/C++ order of predecence, but it doesn't do much else in the way of being like C++. Want to test (true || false)? Too bad. How about (!false)? Too bad! The evaluations are a strange mixture of REALbasic and C/C++.
- It doesn't save its preferences. I hope you like the default colors for everything.
- Why is "follows the order of precedence" a feature? It wouldn't be much of a calculator if it didn't follow them!
- There's no way to keep track of old expressions. What kind of calculator these days doesn't have that?
- $25!? For a calculator!?

...and finally:
- 5^2 = 7. Learn something new everyday, huh? I could have sworn it was 25, but like the guided tour says: "Suppose you were expecting a different answer. Iota-calc lets you step through the evaluation to see why it got the answer it did."