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Hello there!
I'm a new n800 owner, and so far I've found this website to be the most useful resource for any problems with my n800 that I've had so far (and I've had many, mostly hardware problems).

I have owned Palm series devices for the last few years, and I've been recently started working on developing mobile software for myself, but I've found the Palm OS to be too limiting and hard to work with so I bought myself a n800.

The only one thing missing from my n800 is a calculator.
On my Palm TX I had EasyCalc installed, and I've loved using it--but the n800 doesn't have any calculators that work like EasyCalc does.
I know there's the Garnet VM to run EasyCalc in but it takes a while to load and isn't very efficient with the screen real-estate on the n800.

I would like to know if there is an equivalent to EasyCalc for the n800--or if there's a similar Linux application that performs similarly to EasyCalc that I could port.

Thank you very much for your time!
Happy New Year!

...anyone?

What is it about EasyCalc that you need? Never seen the program so hard to know if I can recommend a replacement.

http://galculator.sourceforge.net/

Will this do what you're looking for?

I'm not the OP, but I have also been looking for an alternative to the default calculator in OS2008. I basically want a decent scientific calculator, which must have an ln/e function. Multi-line display would be useful. I don't need graphing, but the OP might be looking for that (lybniz might work for that, if he needs that)

What I don't like about the built-in calculator is that you can't enter a long string of commands. Perhaps it is just a different (European?) style of calculator, but I find it very awkward to use. I am used to calculators like the TI-30XIIS, where you punch the full expression that you want and it shows up all on one line, then you hit "=" to get the answer.

I imagine that ANY other calculator that has been built for Maemo will be better for me than the existing one, so I'd just be interested to know what is out there.

Sorry if I am hijacking this thread, but hopefully this will also help the original poster.

Galculator looks very promising. I especially like the "paper" mode (screenshot http://galculator.sourceforge.net/im....3.0_paper.png)

Is there a port available on OS2008?

After searching (Technut would be proud!), I found another application that might serve the needs of the original poster as well as my own. MathJinni is billed as a "simple function calculator and plotter" on the Maemo site. http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mathjinni/

Free42 is lurvely (http://www.tajuma.com/hp/) - rpn input takes a bit of getting used to after being used to algebraic input, but it's worth it IMO. It's working on OS2008 now as well.

You can try this:
http://maemobox.org/dblank/galculator_1.3.1-1_armel.deb

Good luck!

DBlank- Thanks for the link, but I'm afraid I'm a little lost on what to do with that file. I saved it to the tablet, opened it in Application Manager (using "install from file"), but it gave an error message "Unable to install galculator. Incompatible application package". I am running OS2008, if that makes a difference.
(Confession: I'm a newbie and have only installed apps with one-click installs so far.)