Comments on: Windows Calculator Pi (π) Easter Egg

By: anynoums

anynoums — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:08:52 +0000

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: Paul

Paul — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:06:36 +0000

hehehe, daniel talaga. :-) but yeah, he is indeed correct. BUT this is something i found out just recently also. anyway, happy easter. advanced. :-)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:22:40 +0000

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: Bob Reyes

Bob Reyes — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:56:43 +0000

That trick was there since Windows 98.

By: Lysender

Lysender — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:42:21 +0000

I tried pressing “po” it displays 0.99849714986386383363576448540881

“PL” = 0.4971498726941338543512682882909

Very cool!