Windows Calculator Pi (π) Easter Egg
by AJ on January 28, 2009
This might be very old but I just accidentally found this easter egg on my Windows computer…
Copy this word in quotes “pi” and paste it (CTRL+V) in Windows Calculator (calc.exe) and you get the first 32 decimal digits of pi (?).
Cool huh? By the way, I’m using Windows Vista (yeah, I know). Not sure if this works on other versions of Windows. Try it and let us know in the comments.
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7 comments
you people are retarted, just select scientific calculator, from the view tab and then theres literaly a button that says, pi. (ps: its vista)
by anynoums on March 11, 2010 at 9:08 PM. #
well some of us have XP where it doesnt have a pi button so dont be so hasty to call people retards retard
by Aran on February 4, 2012 at 9:24 AM. #
hehehe, daniel talaga. :-) but yeah, he is indeed correct. BUT this is something i found out just recently also. anyway, happy easter. advanced. :-)
by Paul on April 10, 2009 at 3:06 AM. #
Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble, but that’s hardly an easter egg or a trick. It’s the keyboard shortcut for a button that’s only hidden because you’re not using the right view. If you change the View from Standard to Scientific, you’ll uncover the “pi” key, whose shortcut is “p”. (Right-click any button and select “What’s This?” to see a description including the shortcut.)
Incidentally, typing “po” gives you the cosine of pi degrees = 0.99849714986386383363576448540881.
Try hitting F3 before typing “po” and you’ll get the cosine of pi radians = -1.
Typing “PL” gives the base-10 logarithm of pi = 0.4971498726941338543512682882909
by Daniel on March 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM. #
That trick was there since Windows 98.
by Bob Reyes on February 9, 2009 at 10:56 PM. #
I tried pressing “po” it displays 0.99849714986386383363576448540881
“PL” = 0.4971498726941338543512682882909
Very cool!
by Lysender on January 29, 2009 at 2:42 AM. #
cool! it’s working… i tried typing “P” and works too.. i’m using winxp =)
also press “L” and “N” with “0″ on the display, it would output “Invalid input for function”
i think these are shortcut keys for some match functions.
by jhOy on January 28, 2009 at 8:22 PM. #