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| screenshot = Windows 11 Calculator in light mode.png

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| caption = Calculator in [[Windows 11]]

| author = Chris Peters,<br />Mark Cliggett,<br />Marc Taylor,<br />Kraig Brockschmidt<ref>{{Cite web

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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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=== 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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* [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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