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| logo = Windows Calculator icon.png

| logo size = x64px

| screenshot = Windows 11 Calculator onin Windowslight 11mode.png

| screenshot size = 200px

| caption = Calculator in [[Windows 11]]

| author = Chris Peters,<br />Mark Cliggett,<br />Marc Taylor,<br />Kraig Brockschmidt<ref>{{Cite web
| last = Juarez
| first = Seth
| date = 2016-02-09
| url = https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/seth-juarez/kraig-brockschmidt-creator-of-calc-on-early-days-microsoft
| title = Kraig Brockschmidt, Creator of Calc, on the Early Days at Microsoft
| website = Microsoft Learn
| access-date = 2024-08-11}}</ref>

| developer = [[Microsoft]]

| released = {{sda|1985|11|20|df=y}}

| latest release version = February 2025 Update (11.24112502.12.0)

| latest release date = {{sda|20242025|1203|0124|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web

| url = https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhvn5

| title = Windows Calculator

| website = Microsoft Apps

| access-date = 2025-0103-24}}</ref>

| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator}}

| programming language = [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]

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[[MIT License]] ([[Windows 10]])

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'''Windows Calculator''' is a [[software calculator]] developed by [[Microsoft]] and included in [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. In its [[Windows 10]] incarnation it has four modes: standard, scientific, programmer, and a graphing mode. The standard mode includes a number pad and buttons for performing arithmetic operations. The scientific mode takes this a step further and adds exponents and trigonometric functionfunctions, and programmer mode allows the user to perform operations related to [[computer programming]]. In 2020, a graphing mode was added to the Calculator, allowing users to graph equations on a coordinate plane.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-17 |title=Windows Calculator will get a Graphing Mode: first look - gHacks Tech News |url=https://www.ghacks.net/2020/01/17/windows-calculator-will-get-a-graphing-mode-first-look/ |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=gHacks Technology News |language=en-US}}</ref>

The Windows Calculator is one of a few applications that have been bundled in all versions of Windows, starting with [[Windows 1.0]]. Since then, the calculator has been upgraded with various capabilities.

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The calculators of [[Windows XP]] and [[Windows Vista|Vista]] were able to calculate using numbers beyond 10¹⁰⁰⁰⁰, but calculating with these numbers (e.g. 10^2^2^2^2^2^2^2...) does increasingly slow down the calculator and make it unresponsive until the calculation has been completed.

TheseUnlike are the lastlater versions of Windows Calculator, where calculating with [[Binary number|binary]]/[[decimal]]/[[hexadecimal]]/[[octal]] numbers is included into scientific mode. In Windows 7, they were moved to ''programmer mode'', which is a new separate mode that co-exists with ''scientific mode''.

===Windows 7===

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=== Windows 11 ===

In Windows 11, the Calculator app's user interface was modified to match the design of Windows 11 and a new settings page is present for users to toggle between the themes of the app without changing the operating system's theme. In 2021, Microsoft announced it would migrate the codebase of the Calculator app to [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] in order to welcome more developers to contribute to the app. The community edition of Visual Studio can be easily configured to develop the source code.<ref>{{Citation |title=microsoft/calculator |date=2025-08-18 |url=https://github.com/microsoft/calculator |access-date=2025-08-18 |publisher=Microsoft}}</ref>

== Gallery ==

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==Features==

By default, Calculator runs in standard mode, which resembles a four-function calculator. More advanced functions are available in scientific mode, including [[logarithm]]s, [[numerical base]] conversions, some [[logical connective|logical operators]], [[Order of operations|operator precedence]], [[radian]], [[degree (angle)|degree]] and [[gradians]] support as well as simple single-variable [[statistical]] functions. It does not provide support for user-defined functions, [[complex number]]s, storage variables for intermediate results (other than the classic accumulator memory of pocket calculators), automated [[polar coordinates|polar]]-[[cartesianCartesian coordinates]] conversion, or support for two-variables statistics.

In addition, the programming mode allows conversions between bases 16, 10, 8, and 2, the most commonly used by programmers. In this mode, the on-screen [[numeric keypad]] includes the hexadecimal digits A through F, which are active when "Hex" is selected. In hex mode, only integers are supported.

Calculator supports [[keyboard shortcut]]s; all Calculator features have an associated keyboard shortcut.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcuts#keyboard-shortcuts=windows-8|title = Keyboard shortcuts|access-date = 11 March 2013|website = Windows 8 Help|publisher = [[Microsoft]]}}</ref>

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* [https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator Source code on GitHub]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090316031019/http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32b0d059-b53a-4dc9-8265-da47f157c091&displaylang=en Microsoft Calculator Plus]

* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos-calc/ ReactOS Calc]

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