Magic Number Machine

A free, full-featured, graphically laid out, high-precision, scientific calculator for Mac OS X 10.4 and greater. Full source-code is included with the distribution.

Good if you need to enter large expressions or have accurate precision. “Data” drawers allow statistical data, linear regression and gaussian elimination. All parts of the program support complex numbers and hexadecimal numbers.

Download the current version: Magic Number Machine (v1.0.25). Size: 2.0MB

Alternate download link:Magic Number Machine (v1.0.25). Size: 2.0MB

Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or greater. Native Intel Mac support (universal binary). Source code requires XCode 2.2 or greater. Users of Mac OS X 10.2.8 to 10.3.9 can download the special 1.0 Build which incorporates all major bugs fixed up to 1.0.22.

Changes in 1.0.25: Added Italian translations (thanks to Alessio).

Changes in 1.0.24: Fixed an issue where the window didn't appear on startup or disappeared on resizing.

Changes in 1.0.23: Changes include:

    • For locales that use comma as the decimal point, this will now work.
    • Keyboard shortcuts have changed significantly to avoid conflicts in different language locales and to fix the "Clear" button (will now correctly clear the whole expression). New menu item in Help menu will link to help page on keyboard shortcuts.
    • Fixed tooltips in all languages. Non-English languages will now show correct language. English will now show correct keyboard shortcuts.
    • Any division by zero now correctly returns "Not a number" instead of "0".
    • Command-W will now work to close the window.

Changes in 1.0.22: Fixed a minor keyboard focus issue on application hide/unhide.

Program Features:

The program’s feature list goes something like this:

  • 25 accurate digits of precision
  • Complex numbers
  • Hexdecimal, octal, binary, decimal and 2’s complement display.
  • Floating point numbers, even in non-decimal radices.
  • A full expression history (go back to anything)
  • A graphical display that you can click on to change the entry point
  • Value memory limited only by computer memory.
  • Statistics functions
  • Linear regression
  • Matrix functions including gaussian elimination, inversion and determinants.
  • Large number of scientific constants built-in.

Thanks to:

  • Ramiro Téllez Sanz for the Spanish translation.
  • Bobby Nguyen for the French translation.
  • Frank Nobis for the German translation.
  • Alessio Sassu for the Italian translation. 

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