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by a_e_k 1376 days ago
On that note, I always end up using an HP 48g emulator on my phone as my main calculator app. I've been using Droid48 for many years now [0]. I'd initially looked at most of the native mobile calculator apps before realizing that since I was comparing them all with the HP 48 experience, I might as well just use an emulated HP 48 and be done with it.

On a laptop or desktop, though, I've come to use Emacs Calc [1] pretty heavily. There's a surprising amount of power in it. It's pretty cool to be able to do things like operate on matrices of symbolic expressions via a stack interface.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm...

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Ha! I use a Casio emulator as my main calculator

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=advanced.scien...

I find Hiper to be almost perfect for its clearer UI than a rendering of a real device and, especially, for its prominent binary and hex radix modes.

But it lacks the stack undo of the 48 emulators.